Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Carrowndangan, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrowndangan
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.81010, -9.05510
- SMR number
- MA091-003----
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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 average pasture, located on a rise, with a band of wet, rush-grown ground c. 10m to E–SE.
Raised circular area (35m N–S; 34.5m E–W) defined by a high scarp (Wth slope 3.4m at E, 4.6m at W; H 2.35m at E, 2.45m at W). A property fence on a NE–SW axis crosses the NW edge of the rath. On the NW side of this fence there is a parallel field ditch (Wth 1.8; D 0.45m).
The rath interior is level, traversed by faint relict cultivation ridges on a NE–SW axis. A slumped section (Wth c. 3m) of scarp at SSW that may be the site of an original entrance. According to local tradition, there is a souterrain (MA091-003001-) in the rath.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 7 February 2022
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.