Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Castlehill (tirawley By., Crossmolina. Par.), County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Castlehill (tirawley By., Crossmolina. Par.)
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.04898, -9.33429
- SMR number
- MA038-118----
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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 low elevation, with a fall of ground to E to an area of flat wettish ground.
This possible rath is shown on the 1838 OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 40m), bisected to N of centre by a NE–SW field boundary; by the time of the 1922 edition, only the NW third is shown, depicted as a semi-circular hachured area with the straight side to SE.
It has been levelled. An oblong rise (16m NW-SE; c. 25-30m NE–SW), defined along its NW arc by a slight scarp, representing the NW-N arc of the enclosure, can still be discerned. Further faint undulations are visible to S, but the full outline of the enclosure is no longer visible at ground level. There is another possible rath (MA038-117----) 140m to N.
Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 13 August 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.