Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Cartron (Costello By., Kilbeagh Par.), County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cartron (Costello By., Kilbeagh Par.)
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.95471, -8.85998
- SMR number
- MA062-071----
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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)
- 1857 · 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, in a thicket of overgrowth, located on top of a hill giving good views NW–NE over a broad expanse of grassland and bog. There is a N-flowing stream 90m to W. The ground falls steeply to S–SE into a natural depression of wet ground.
This rath is shown on the 1837 OS 6-inch map as an oval embanked enclosure, with a field boundary on a N-S crossing the E half of the interior, and a building/farmstead abutting the W side. On 1919 OS edition only the W half of the enclosure is depicted.
Only the W half of the rath remains. It consists of a semi-circular, raised area (c. 30m N–S; c. 15-20m E–W to quarry pit) defined SSW–N by an earthen scarp (Wth slope 2.3m; H 1m at NW). The E half of the enclosure has been quarried away, although it is possible that a portion of the enclosure may be incorporated into the remnants of a N–S field fence on the E edge of the quarried area. A farm track on a NW–SE axis, flanked by field fences, clips the W edge of the rath, and a field fence on a roughly E–W axis, clips the scarp at N.
It is densely covered in brambles and hawthorn and blackthorn bushes.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 7 December 2020
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