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
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.08145, -9.07507
- SMR number
- MA040-052----
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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, with a fall of ground to E to an area of wet ground.
Roughly oval raised area (c. 19.5m N−S; c. 16m E−W) defined by a scarp (H 0.7m). The interior slopes down by as much as 1-1.5m from centre to E, mirroring the natural slope. Short semicircular sections of the scarp at N and SE−S have been quarried out. A N−S field fence clips the scarp along the W side of the enclosure, and remnants of a perpendicular field wall extends W from it across the S half of the interior. Grass cover, with blackthorn scrub encroaching from the field fence/hedgerow at W. There is an enclosure (MA040-099----) 45m to NW and a rath (MA040-051----) 90m to NW.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 25 May 2020
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.