Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Earthwork
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
- 54.07598, -9.06653
- SMR number
- MA040-054----
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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 top of a hill, with a steep fall of ground at S, W and N. There are very good views, especially to W, over the surrounding sharply undulating terrain.
This monument is not indicated on the 1838 OS 6-inch map, where the location is marked with a trigonometrical point; it is shown on the 1922 edition as a small hachured circular feature (diam. c. 10m).
When inspected in 1996, it was engulfed in an impenetrable thicket of blackthorn, brambles, hawthorn and hazel, and it was not possible to fully examine it. In parts at E and NE a slightly raised area defined by a scarp (H 1m at E) could be glimpsed, with remnants of a field wall on a roughly N-S axis immediately outside it. The monument was later destroyed during land reclamation works. Its exact nature is unknown; it may have been a mound or a form of barrow.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 25 May 2020
Nearby in the register
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Holed stoneunder 1 mi
- Megalithic structureunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.