Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Carrowcastle (Gallen By., Bohola Par.), County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrowcastle (Gallen By., Bohola Par.)
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.91098, -9.07809
- SMR number
- MA071-192----
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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 improved pasture, on a low ridge, overlooking a flat expanse of lowlying, wettish land to SE−S, and overlooked to W by rising ground on which a church (MA071-069----) and an earthwork castle (MA071-070----) are located.
A D-shaped enclosure (max. dim. c. 15m) outlined by a solid line is shown on the 1838 OS 6-inch map; it is not shown on later map editions. It is record in an aerial photograph (SMR file: GSI M 690 -1; Roll 217, pr. 30).
This possible rath is known in local tradition as a 'fort' named 'Rath Eilbhin (Elvin)'.
The remains consist of a raised earthen platform (15m N−S; 15m E−W), an irregular D-shape in plan. It is defined at ENE−SSW by a curving scarp (H 1.8m at E, 1.4m at S), by a straight N−S scarp (H 1.1m) on the W side and by a quarry pit (c. 12m N−S) on the N side. This may represent the surviving SE quadrant of an originally circular enclosure/rath.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 24 September 2021
Nearby in the register
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Castle - motteunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.