Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Carrowcastle (Gallen By., Kilgarvan Par.), County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrowcastle (Gallen By., Kilgarvan Par.)
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.08937, -9.07002
- SMR number
- MA040-007----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1841 · 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 slight rise in undulating terrain, with good views to E−SE.
This enclosure, probably a rath, is shown on the 1838 OS 6-inch map as a circular embanked enclosure, abutted by a field boundary at NE, and on the 1922 edition as a circular hachured enclosure (diam. 25-30m) incorporated into a NE−SW field boundary on the N arc, with another field boundary, on a NW−SE axis, cutting through the W half of the interior.
It has been has been levelled. The NE−SW field boundary, which lay at the N end of the enclosure, has also been removed. A short length of the NW-SE field fence is intact, and abutting its W side there is a remnant of the original enclosure bank or scarp. It is evident as a low rise describing a shallow arc SW−NW. There is a rath (MA040-005----) 115m to N.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 20 April 2020
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.