Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Carrowdoogan, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrowdoogan
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.05720, -9.03765
- SMR number
- MA040-090----
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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 a slight depression on a rocky terrace on the NW-facing foothills of the Ox Mountains.
Circular area (19m N−S; 18m E−W) enclosed by a drystone wall (Wth 0.6-0.7m; H 1m). The wall is roughly built of field stone rubble. The interior has a very slight slope down from centre to the perimeter at SW−W. Remnants of a drystone field wall (Wth 0.4m; H 0.15m), on a N−S axis, bisects the interior. There are low areas in the wall at W and S, but no clearly defined entrance.
This small enclosure does not appear to be a ringfort or ancient enclosure. The enclosing wall is narrow and roughly built, of similar size and construction to local field walls. It may be an animal enclosure dating to 18th/19th century. Ferns obscure the interior.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 12 June 2020
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy well1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.