Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Carrowcrom, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrowcrom
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.09615, -9.06345
- SMR number
- MA040-009----
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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 rise in undulating terrain, overlooking a stream which is 90m to W.
This enclosure is not shown on 1838 OS 6-inch map; it is shown on the 1922 edition as a subcircular area (diam. c. 16m) defined by an arc of hachuring at NW and by field boundaries elsewhere.
The enclosure is engulfed in a thicket of blackthorn and gorse, which impeded inspection. It is difficult to determine its original form; it may have been a circular or subcircular enclosure, which has been greatly modified and incorporated into a later system of field walls.
The remains now appear to consist of a squarish area (max. dim. c. 15m) defined on the W side by a stone-faced scarp (H 0.6m) which has a stony top (wth c. 1m). This scarp curves gently W-NW but then extends in a straighter line from N−E, intersecting at E with a N−S field wall, which defines straight E side of the enclosure. The straight S side consists of an E-W field wall which appears to be built on top of a sod-covered scarp (H 0.5).
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 20 April 2020
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Stone rowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.