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
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.05052, -9.12316
- SMR number
- MA039-108----
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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, located on a gentle SE-facing slope on the NW shore of Carrowkeribly Lough.
Oval area (42m NNE–SSW; 32m WNW–ESE) defined by an earthen bank and enclosed by a fosse. The bank (Wth 4.7m at SE, c. 6m at SW; int. H 0.15m at SE, 0.4m at SW; ext. H 1.5-1.6m) appears to have been partly levelled. It retains a pronounced external slope but retains only as a low, broadly-slumped internal rim. The fosse (Wth 5m) is broad, with a flat base, and is most clearly defined at SSW–N. In parts, the fosse appears to have a stony rim on it outer edge, but there is no definitive evidence for an external bank. The entrance may have been at E where there is a low area (Wth c. 2m) in the inner bank and a break (Wth 7m) in the fosse. Faint traces of possible cultivation ridges, on a NW–SE orientation, can be seen in the interior. According to local information, a depression (8m E–W; 3m N–S) in the W half of the interior marks the location of a souterrain (MA039-108001-).
The rath interior is covered with grass and ferns, with a few hawthorn bushes on the perimeter.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 1 April 2020
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.