Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Carrowmore (Gallen By., Bohola Par.), County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrowmore (Gallen By., Bohola Par.)
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.89675, -9.00747
- SMR number
- MA071-134----
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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
In pasture, on a ridge top, just below the summit, at the break of slope on the S side. At the base of the slope at SW there small valley of wet ground with another ridge beyond that on which a rath (MA071-133----) is visible 200m to SW. There are good views to N−E along a small river valley, with the river located 200m to N. Two other raths (MA071-135----; MA071-136----) are located c. 240m to SE.
Broadly oval raised area (26m N−S; 29.7m E−W) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 3.1m; int. H 0.7m; ext. H 1.4m), which is reduced to a scarp (H 2.2m) at SE−W. A few stones protrude randomly from the scarp. On the SW the scarp has been adapted to serve as a field boundary. The interior is level, except for a slight slope down to S in the S third. Traces of cultivation ridges on a roughly E-W axis traverse the interior. Grass cover, with a few hawthorn trees around the perimeter.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 10 September 2021
Nearby in the register
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.