Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Carrowkilleen (tirawley By.), County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrowkilleen (tirawley By.)
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Lisheenpastia
- Latest-edition OS map
- Lisheenpastia
- Coordinates
- 54.08635, -9.38921
- SMR number
- MA038-018001-
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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 rolling pasture, located on a rise. There is a stream/drain c. 230m to E.
This monument, which was probably a rath, is shown on the 1838 and 1922 OS 6-inch maps as a circular enclosure (diam. 20-25m), named ‘Lisheenpastia’. It has been levelled. A low, flat-topped rise (c. 16m N–S; c. 12m E–W) is evident at the location, defined by a broadly slumped slope, with the most pronounced fall of ground on the W side. According to local tradition, it was used as a children’s burial ground (MA038-018002-). There is another possible rath (MA038-019001-) and children’s burial ground (MA018-019002-) 180m to SSE, and a possible rath (MA038-020----) is located c. 190m to SE.
Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 24 July 2019
Nearby in the register
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.