Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Carrowntreila, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrowntreila
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.07839, -9.16144
- SMR number
- MA039-054----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
In pasture, on elevated ground in gently undulating terrain. This possible rath is indicated on the 1838 OS 6-inch map as a circular embanked enclosure (diam. c. 30m). By the time of the 1930 edition, the enclosing bank at N–E is no longer shown, and the perimeter at W is incorporated into a later NNW–SSE field boundary. The enclosure has since been levelled. A shallow curve in the NNW-SSE field boundary reflects the W arc of the enclosure and may preserve remnants of the original enclosing bank; elsewhere the outline can be traced as a slight surface undulation. There is another possible rath (MA039-055) 60m to SE.
Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 21 February 2020
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.