Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
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
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.89627, -9.04201
- SMR number
- MA071-122----
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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 elevated ground.
An embanked circular enclosure (diam. 25-30m) is shown on the 1838 OS 6-inch map; it is not shown on the 1931 edition, where a sub-rectangular field plot with a curving SW boundary is shown.
This enclosure has been leveled and partly subsumed into a sub-rectangular field plot (16m NE–SW; c. 8-10m NW-SE) which is defined on the NE, SE and SW sides by field fences and is open on the NW side (where a field fence has been removed). On the SE and SW sides the field fence tops a steep scarp (H c. 2m) marking a pronounced drop in ground level to S and SW. The SE side is bordered by a farm track. The original form and extent of the circular enclosure can no longer be traced. Modern houses are located immediately to SW and NW.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 25 August 2021
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.