Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Carrownaraha, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrownaraha
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.88218, -9.12196
- SMR number
- MA070-209----
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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, located at the N end of a low ridge in gently undulating terrain. A substantially raised circular area (c. 32m N–S; c. 31m E–W) defined by a partly eroded scarp (H 4.5m). A ramp-like feature, partly defined by stones, located in the slope of the rath platform at the NE, may be the original entrance. In the interior at the WSW there is a large irregular-shaped hollow that represents a collapsed souterrain (MA070-209001-). Cultivation ridges (Wth c. 3m) traverse the interior surface on a NE–SW axis, but are not evident in the area of the souterrain.
Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 26 October 2012
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.