Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
House - indeterminate date
Carrowmacloughlin (carra By.), County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrowmacloughlin (carra By.)
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.91997, -9.20303
- SMR number
- MA070-039002-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In the interior of a densely overgrown bivallate cashel (MA070-039001-). When inspected in 1983, six separate structures were noted: two possible square house sites and four possible round houses or huts (SMR file).
At the centre of the monument, the remains of two square drystone built structures (int. L c. 4-5m; Wth c. 4-5m; wall H 0.8-1.3m) stood almost back-to-back and were aligned on a NE-SW axis.
The remains of two possible circular hut or house sites (int. diam. c. 3-4m) abutted the inner wall face of the cashel at N and two similar structures abutted the wall at S. There was also a local tradition of a souterrain (MA070-029003-) in the interior of the cashel.
When reinspected in 2025, the monument was found to be totally overgrown and impenetrable in parts.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 3-11-2025
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Crannogunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.