Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Carrowconnell, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrowconnell
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.89455, -9.12255
- SMR number
- MA070-164001-
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1790 · Composite: 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
Located on a slight N−S ridge.
Oval platform (38m N−S; 29m E−W) defined by a scarp (H 1.8m). The scarp is higher (H 2-2.4m) on the N and S arcs where it cuts into higher ground, and here there is evidence of a fosse (Wth 3m) with slight remnants of an external bank outside the scarp. A depression (L c. 10m NE−SW) in the NE quadrant of the interior, close to the edge of the platform, marks the location of a collapsed souterrain (MA070-164002-).
There is another rath (MA070-165----) c. 175m to E.
Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy
Date of upload: January 2018
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Monumental structureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.