Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Carrownageeragh (Gallen By., Killeden Par.), County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrownageeragh (Gallen By., Killeden Par.)
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.83138, -9.02662
- SMR number
- MA080-040----
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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
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, straddling the break of slope at the top of a W-facing slope. There is a stream at the base of the slope c. 200m to W.
Circular area (c. 38m NNE-SSW; c. 36m WNW-ESE) defined SSW−N−NNE by a substantial earthen scarp (H 3.4m), topped with slight remnants of stone walling, probably a later field wall. The scarp peters out at NE−E and is entirely levelled and flush with exterior field level at E−S.
Outside the scarp at SSE−NNE is a broad terrace/fosse (Wth 5.5m) with an external earth and stone bank (H 1m). The external bank serves as a field fence and is topped with a post and wire fence and hazel and thorn bushes; it takes the form of a scarp topped with tumbled stone walling at W−NW, at NW-N it is bordered by a farm track that skirts the N side of the enclosure, and it has been levelled at NNE−SE to a slight surface undulation. The interior of the enclosure is level and featureless.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 3 December 2021
Nearby in the register
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.