Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Carrowreagh (Costello By.), County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrowreagh (Costello By.)
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.77100, -8.75017
- SMR number
- MA093-046----
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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 rolling pasture, located on a low rise, with good views, most extensive to the SW.
A circular area (29m NE–SW; 27m NW–SE) defined on the S half by an earthen bank (Wth 4.8m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 1.55m). Outside the bank it is enclosed by a fosse (Wth 2.3m) with an external bank/counterscarp of earth and stone, which is low and relatively insubstantial on the SE-S arc (Wth 1.4-1.7m; int. H 0.6m; ext. H 0.1m) and more substantial (Wth 2.5m) at W. The N half of the rath has been levelled and can be traced only as a low undulation. The rath utilises a natural rise which creates a slightly raised, fairly level interior.
The entrance is at SSE where there is a gap (Wth 1.8m) in the bank with traces of a causeway (Wth c. 2m) across the fosse. A field wall on a NE–SW axis crosses the S half of the interior, intersecting at the SW end with a perpendicular field wall which extends to the NW truncating the inner face of the bank at W.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 29 June 2022
Nearby in the register
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Cairn - clearance cairnunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.