Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Earthwork
Corroy, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Corroy
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.05931, -9.17794
- SMR number
- MA039-075----
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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 the SE-facing slope of a ridge. A rath (MA039-074001-) crowns the top of the ridge 100m to NE. A small circular embanked enclosure (diam. 10-15m) is shown on the 1838 OS 6-inch map but not on later map editions. It has been levelled; there is no visible trace at ground level.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 1 April 2020
Nearby in the register
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Inscribed stoneunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.