Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Carrowroger, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrowroger
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.90122, -9.11932
- SMR number
- MA070-128----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 gentle SE-facing slope. A large, poorly preserved circular area (int. diam. c. 50m) is bisected by a later field boundary running E-W across the interior and truncated by a farm track running N-S through the E sector. The enclosing bank is best preserved along the S (int. H 0.2m; Wth 6m; ext. H 0.9m) but has been reduced to a scarp (H 1m) from SW-W-N-NE. The original enclosing element has been levelled from NE-SE (to the E of the later N-S farm track) but a mature ash tree grows on its line at ESE. There is a wide modern gap (Wth 4m) into the interior at SSW. The perimeter is overgrown with bushes and the enclosing scarp and interior are heavily poached by livestock.
Date of visit: 13-08-2025
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.