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Ringfort - rath

Carrowleagh, County Mayo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Carrowleagh, 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
Carrowleagh
County
Mayo
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
54.14160, -9.02886
SMR number
MA031-012----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1841 · 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, on a low ridge, with good views. To W ground slopes to a lowlying expanse of wettish pasture.
This enclosure is not shown on the 1837-8 OS 6-inch map; it is shown on the 1922 edition as a penannular hachured area, open to NE. It consist of a slightly raised, semi-circular area (30m E-W; c. 25m N-S) defined on the curving side at E-WNW by a scarp with a low internal lip (Wth 4m; int. H 0.35; ext. H 1.05 to S, 1.5m to W), from which stones protrude. To N−NE the enclosure has been levelled, here there is an area of rough, uneven ground, dotted with field clearance heaps. There is a slight depression (Wth c. 2m) outside the bank to E, possibly indicating an infilled fosse, but it cannot be traced elsewhere.

Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy

Date of upload: 13 June 2018

Nearby in the register

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

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