Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Carrowkeel East, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrowkeel East
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.75807, -8.82356
- SMR number
- MA092-084----
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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, located close to the NW boundary of the townland, straddling a rise in undulating terrain; views good but not extensive.
Roughly circular, slightly raised area (diam. c. 21m) defined by a scarp (H 1.6m at E, 1m at NNW) outside which it is enclosed at S–NNE by a fosse (Wth 2m) with traces of a possible external bank (Wth 2m; int. H 0.4m) surviving as a low rise, obscured by gorse, at NW–N. The fosse and possible outer bank are not evident on the E side, where there is a natural fall of ground.
The interior slopes down markedly from centre to the E, but is almost entirely engulfed in gorse and difficult to inspect. There is a gap (Wth 2.6m) in the scarp at SSE defined on its W side by a low bank that extends across the fosse; it may mark an original entrance. A field fence/townland boundary skirts the W side of the rath, respecting its curve.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 24 May 2022
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Road - road/trackwayunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.