Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Carrowkeel (Gallen By.), County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrowkeel (Gallen By.)
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.89823, -9.04233
- SMR number
- MA071-089----
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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
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
In pasture incorporated into the SW corner of a modern rectangular field, located on top of a low ridge, at the break of slope on the gently falling S side. Views quite good over undulating terrain, wet in the lowlying hollows.
Circular platform (40.5m NW−SE; 43.6m NE−SW) defined by a high scarp (H 2m at SW, 1.7m at NE). A section of the scarp and a portion of the adjacent interior have been quarried out at NE−E in the past (grassed over now). The scarp is lowest and rather slumped at NNE. It retains a slightly raised inner lip at SE−S. It serves as a field boundary at ESE−S−WSW, and its exterior slope is covered in hawthorn and ash trees. At W the scarp is subsumed into a N−S field fence and is topped with a stone wall and engulfed in a hedgerow.
There is a very slight rise in interior ground level in the N half, to NW of centre, with a gently slope down from there to E and S.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 17 August 2021
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.