Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
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
- 54.07886, -9.06804
- SMR number
- MA040-053001-
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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 NW-facing slope in sharply undulating terrain. There are good views to SW−W; rising ground restricts views N−SE.
Raised circular area (c. 25m N−S; c. 25m E−W) enclosed by an earthen bank (Wth 5.5m at NW, c. 4m at E; int. H 0.3-0.4m; ext. H 2.8m at NW, 0.8m at E), which has largely been reduced to a scarp with a broad, low internal rim. Stones protruding along the inner edge of the bank at W−NW may be remnants of a kerb. There are narrow breaks, eroded by farm stock, in the scarp at S and W, and there is a possible entrance gap at SE, now obscured by overgrowth.
The interior is level. There is no obvious trace of the souterrain (MA040-053002), which is indicated as ‘Cave’ in the S half of the interior on the 1922 OS 6-inch map.
A field fence on a NE−SW axis lies immediately outside the bank scarp at SE−S, and remnants of drystone facing along the base of the external face of the bank/scarp at E−SE indicate where another field fence has been removed. Blackthorn scrub is encroaching on the interior, especially at E and S; the bank is thickly ringed with hawthorn, blackthorn and brambles.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 25 May 2020
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.