Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballycarroon, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballycarroon
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Rathandarris
- Latest-edition OS map
- Rathandarris
- Coordinates
- 54.09010, -9.34657
- SMR number
- MA038-014----
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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 top of a rise, close to the break of slope on the NE side. There is a farmyard immediately to NE–E.
This rath is shown on the 1838 and 1922 OS 6-inch maps, where it is named ‘Rathandarris’; on the 1922 edition it is depicted as an oval enclosure (c. 22m E–W; c. 27m N–S) truncated on its S-SW edge by a straight NW-SE field boundary. The rath has been levelled, and part of the NE-E quadrant has been completely quarried away, with the steep quarried scarp dropping into the farmyard.
There is a rath (MA038-012----) located c. 200m to NW.
Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 17 July 2019
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.