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
- 54.08115, -9.06087
- SMR number
- MA040-055----
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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 rise in an area of undulating terrain, with Lough Brohly located 300m to SE. Views good but not extensive; best to E where the rising slopes of the OX Mountains define the horizon.
Slightly raised circular area (c. 20m NE−SW; 23m NW−SE) defined by a stony bank, partly levelled to a scarp. The rath is bisected to NW of centre by a field wall/property boundary on a NE−SW axis. The third of the rath to NW of the field fence is defined at SW−N by a low, stony bank (Wth c. 3m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 0.6-1m); there are sycamore and pine trees growing on the bank and in the interior. The two thirds of the rath to SE of the field fence is grass-covered, and is defined by a bank which has been levelled to a broadly sloping stony scarp (ext. H 1m, 1.4m at S); it is lowest at NE, but has a broader, steeper slump at SE where it merges with a natural fall of ground. Heaps of field clearance stones lie adjacent to the rath at W.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 25 May 2020
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.