Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Moated site
Coolcran (tirawley By., Kilmoylan Par.), County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Coolcran (tirawley By., Kilmoylan Par.)
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Rathmoyle
- Latest-edition OS map
- Rathmoyle
- Coordinates
- 54.11904, -9.20191
- SMR number
- MA030-048----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In pasture, located on the N side of a rise, overlooking to E a natural depression of wet ground.
This moated site consists of a rectangular platform (32.5m NNE-SSW; 48m ESE-WNW) defined by an earthen bank, and enclosed by an external fosse. The bank (W 6.3m; int. H 1.35; ext. H 1.5m) is quite well preserved preserved at S, but elsewhere survives mainly as a scarp, lowest (ext. H 0.5m) at NE and E, which retains a slight internal lip in parts. The fosse (W 4.4m; ext. D 1.4m) is evident only on S side. Brambles and thorn bushes around the perimeter; interior grassy.
There is a rath (MA030-049----) c. 200m to NE.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 16 April 2018
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.