Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Carrowbaun (gallen By.), County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrowbaun (gallen By.)
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.91930, -8.94812
- SMR number
- MA072-009001-
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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, located on top of a ridge. There is a stream 230m to SW.
Slightly raised circular area (29m N-S; 30.7m E-W) defined by a low, sod-covered stone bank. A basal course of large stones and boulders can be seen on the external face at SE−SSW, and in parts at N.
The interior is level. A souterrain (MA072-009002) is indicated in the W half on the 1930 OS 6-inch map; it is evident as a series of surface depressions extending through the interior.
Two field walls cross the interior, intersecting in a T-shaped arrangement: one on a sinuous NE-SW line to E of centre, the other perpendicular to the latter, extending through the NW quadrant.
The perimeter on the NW arc is obscured by gorse.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 17 February 2021
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.