Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - unclassified
Corraun (gallen By.), County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Corraun (gallen By.)
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.90060, -9.15759
- SMR number
- MA070-112----
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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 pasture on a low ridge. Recorded on the first edition (1837) of the OS 6-inch map as a circular area (est. max. diam. c. 40m) defined by a bank; probably a ringfort. Subsequently recorded as altered on the slightly later OS 25-inch plan (1837) where the monument is shown still as a circular enclosure but by then defined by a scarp from NNW-E-SSE and by a later field boundary curving to follow the line of the original enclosing element from SW-W-NW, but with the S limits of the monument, between SSE and SW, overlain by a later boithrín running WNW-ESE.
While the later field boundary curving from SW-W-NW has since been levelled, its line is still traceable at ground level, as is a very low scarp curving NNW-E-SSE, indicating the enclosing line of the monument (E-W diam. c. 30m). The generally level interior contains an electricity pole to N of centre.
Date of visit: 23-9-2025
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Nearby in the register
- Religious house - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Castle - motteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.