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
- Lisheenarnagh
- Latest-edition OS map
- Lisheenarnagh
- Coordinates
- 54.08470, -9.38749
- SMR number
- MA038-019001-
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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 wettish to average pasture, located on a rise. There is a stream/drain 130m to E and the Deel River is located 300m to S.
This monument is shown on the 1838 and 1922 OS 6-inch maps as a subcircular, ringfort-sized enclosure (diam. 25-30m), named ‘Lisheenarnagh’. It was levelled during land reclamation works; there is no visible trace at ground level. A field fence on NNW-SSE axis extends across the location. According to local tradition, the interior was used as a children’s burial ground (MA038-019002-).
There is a possible rath (MA038-020----) 40m to NE, and another possible rath (MA038-018001-) with a children’s burial ground (MA018-018002-) 180m to NNW.
Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 24 July 2019
Nearby in the register
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.