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Ringfort - rath

Milford Demesne, County Mayo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Milford Demesne, County Mayo, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Milford Demesne
County
Mayo
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.57680, -9.05907
SMR number
MA122-050----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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 pasture, located on a low elevation with the steepest fall of ground to N. There are good views, restricted now to S−SW by trees and farmyard buildings.
This enclosure, most likely a rath, was levelled at an unknown date in the past. It is not shown on any edition of the OS 6-inch maps, but the outline of a circular enclosure (diam. c. 35m) enclosed by a fosse with a possible external bank is clearly visible in Google Earth aerial imagery and Lidar imagery.
At ground level a slightly raised circular platform (c. 35m) is evident, defined on the perimeter by the broad slope of a levelled scarp which merges seamlessly with the surrounding ground. A cropmark/band of paler grass highlights the levelled bank on the W arc.

Notified to NMS by Jean-Charles Caillère.

Attached images:
MA122-050----_01.JPG Rath viewed from SW
MA122-050----_02.JPG GoogleEarth (11/24/2016)
MA122-050----_03.JPG Lidar imagery (Open Topographic viewer)

Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy

Date of upload: 19 May 2022

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

Sites and Monuments Record data: National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Record text is reproduced unchanged. National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland · CC BY 4.0
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