Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Milford Demesne, County Mayo, Ireland
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----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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, 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
- House - 16th/17th centuryunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.