Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Corrower, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Corrower
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.07421, -9.07216
- SMR number
- MA040-049----
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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, straddling a rise in an area of undulating terrain.
Broadly oval raised area or platform (21.4m E−W; 20-15m N−S) defined by a scarp. The scarp is lowest (H 0.4m) on the N−NE arc, and higher and steeper (H 1.8m; Wth slope 3.5m) on the S half where there is a natural fall of ground.
The rath is boxed in by later field walls. The field walls lie close (within 1m) to the base of the enclosing scarp at E−SE and NW, but are 3-4m outside the scarp at S−SW, and form a polygonal outer ring around the rath. There is local tradition of a souterrain (MA040-049001-) associated with the rath.
The rath perimeter is ringed with hawthorn and blackthorn, and there is a dense tangle of blackthorn and brambles throughout the interior. There is a massive boulder and a few smaller stones in the space between the scarp and the outer enclosing field wall at NE.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 25 May 2020
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Burial moundunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.