Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballykine Lower, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballykine Lower
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.54963, -9.34531
- SMR number
- MA120-034----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
In wood, atop hill, with commanding view to W. Raised, circular area (50m N-S; 50m E-W), enclosed by low earthen bank (H 0.5m), with external fosse (D 0.4m). Disturbed on the W. Interior heavily overgrown.
The above description has been derived from D. Lavelle (compiler), An Archaeological Survey of Ballinrobe and District including Lough Mask and Lough Carra. Lough Mask and Lough Carra Tourist Development Association (1994), No. 100.
Date of upload: 15 October 2014
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Cistunder 1 mi
- Cairn - burial cairnunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.