Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Gortacurra, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gortacurra
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Caher Speenaun
- Coordinates
- 53.53742, -9.24270
- SMR number
- MA121-130001-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In pasture, on gentle E facing slope. Rectangular area (29.5m N-S; 36m E-W), enclosed in grass covered, collapsed stone wall (Wth 4.8m; H 0.9m). 14m W are low (H 0.2m) foundations of outer wall (L c. 25m). Overlain by field fence on S. Tradition of souterrain (MA121-130002-) in interior. Cashel wall once '10 feet thick, and 6 feet high' (Wilde 1872,230).
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. 283.
Date of upload: 12 January 2015
References
Wilde, W. 1872 Lough Corrib: its shores and islands with notices of Lough Mask. 2nd ed. Dublin. McGlashan and Gill.
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.