Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Carrowbaun (gallen By.),rabaun, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrowbaun (gallen By.),rabaun
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.92285, -8.94504
- SMR number
- MA072-008----
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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, straddling the NE-facing slope of a rise. There is a stream, coinciding with the N boundary of the townland 100m to N.
Raised circular area (21.6m NNE−SSW; 23.5m ESE−WNW) defined by a drystone wall (Wth 1.7m; int. H 1.4mm; ext. H 1.5m at SW). On the NE arc the enclosure is built up to create a level interior and compensate for the natural slope. As a result, the enclosing wall at N−E consists of a high stone-faced external scarp (ext. H 2m); the internal wall face is low (H 0.15m) and largely tumbled and in parts at NE barely rises above interior ground level.
There is an entrance gap (Wth 1.8m) at SSW. The wall terminal on the E side of the gap incorporates large stones and projects outwards slightly.
A field wall, which coinciding with the townland boundary between Carrowbaun and Rabaun, crosses the enclosure to SE of centre. In the N half of the interior, there is a narrow gully/trench (L 5m NNE−SSW; W 0.4m, 1m at N end; D 0.3-0.4m) of uncertain significance.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 16 February 2021
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.