Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Carrownacon, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrownacon
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.73331, -9.20932
- SMR number
- MA100-057----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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, on E side of gentle slope. Roughly circular area (59m N-S; 52m E-W), enclosed by two tree-lined, earthen banks, with intervening fosse (D 2.1m). Inner bank (H 1m) has gaps on NNE, W, WSW; overlain by fence on W. Outer bank (H 0.8m) levelled, SW to NW. Interior raised; slopes downwards towards bank on all sides; greatly disturbed by farm animals.
The above description has been derived from D. Lavelle (compiler), An Archaeological Survey of Ballinrobe and District including Lough Mask and Lough Carra. Lough Mask and Lough Carra Tourist Development Association (1994), No. 129.
Attached images:
MA100-057----_01.JPG Viewed from W
MA100-057----_02.JPG Fosse on W arc, viewed from S
MA100-057----_03.JPG Interior
MA100-057----_42.JPG Fosse and inner bank at W, viewed from N
Date of upload: 25 January 2013
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Crannogunder 1 mi
- Cistunder 1 mi
- Cistunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.