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
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.08509, -9.38662
- SMR number
- MA038-020----
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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 pasture, located on a small drumlin. There is a stream/drain 80m 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. c. 20m). It has been levelled; there is no visible trace at ground level.
There is a possible rath (MA038-019001-) with a children’s burial ground (MA018-019002-) 40m to SW, and another possible rath (MA038-018001-) with a children’s burial ground (MA018-018002-) c. 190m to NW.
Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 24 July 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 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.