Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Ballymacgibbon South, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballymacgibbon South
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Caher Faeter
- Coordinates
- 53.53863, -9.23552
- SMR number
- MA121-136001-
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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 rough pasture, on raised area. Oval-shaped area (44m N-S; 51m E-W), enclosed by poor remains of stone wall (H 0.6m; Wth 2m), levelled NE to SE. Field fence overlies wall on S, outside of which is sharp drop (H 3.5m) to field level. Interior overgrown, very uneven and contains clearance. Souterrain (MA121-136002-) in SW of interior.
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. 251.
Date of upload: 13 January 2015
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Structureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.