Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Lecarrowcloghagh, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lecarrowcloghagh
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.08165, -9.34804
- SMR number
- MA038-047----
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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 slight rise, in an area of rolling limestone grassland bordered 100m to NW by the Deel River.
This possible rath (diam. c. 30m) is shown on the 1838 and 1922 OS 6-inch maps as a circular enclosure, incorporated on the S arc into a field boundary. The enclosing bank on the N half has been levelled, but the original curve is discernible at NNW–SE as a slight rise or undulation. At SSE–NW the bank has been replaced by or modified to serve as an earth and stone field fence (Wth 1.7m; H 0.7m), which respects the original curve of the enclosure. The original interior area is flat and featureless, and under grass.
Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 25 July 2019
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Cairn - ring-cairnunder 1 mi
- Barrow - mound barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - mound barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.