Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Carrownaculla, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrownaculla
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.90682, -8.94501
- SMR number
- MA072-039----
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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 with excellent views over the surrounding undulating landscape. There is a stream 100m to SW. A modern house is located immediately to W.
Raised circular area (31.4m NW–SE; 32m NE–SW) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 3.4m at E, 4m at W; int. H 1m; ext. H 1.75m at E, 1.9m at W). Stones protruding from the inner face of the bank may be remnants of stone facing. A gap (Wth 3.6m) in the bank at ESE is probably the site of the original entrance.
The interior is generally level, but appears to be slightly higher in the NW quadrant. A field wall on a roughly E−W axis traverses the N edge of the interior, flanking the S side of a road, which skirts the rath, respecting its curve and clipping the external slope of the bank.
According to local tradition, there is a souterrain (MA072-039001-) in the rath interior.
A few hawthorn trees grow around the perimeter.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 31 March 2021
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.