Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Carrowkeribly, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrowkeribly
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.06551, -9.11299
- SMR number
- MA039-082----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In pasture, located on a N–S ridge, overlooking pastureland to E and a broad tract of bog immediately to W.
Oval area (50m N–S; 40m E–W) defined on the W half by a broad, low bank (Wth 6.6m; int. H 0.4m, 1m at S), which is reduced to a scarp (H 1.2-1.4m) on the E half. In parts, the bank appears to have rough internal and external facing of stones. Outside the bank at NW there is a fosse/ditch (Wth 1.4m; D 0.2m), disproportionately narrow relative to the bank and possibly a later feature; it cannot be traced elsewhere around the circuit. There is a break (Wth 2m) in the bank at N. The interior is level. There is a children’s burial ground (MA039-082001-) in the SW quadrant. The bank is ringed with blackthorn, hawthorn and brambles.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 1 April 2020
Nearby in the register
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - court tombunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.