Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Carrowmoney, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrowmoney
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.68258, -9.28368
- SMR number
- MA109-014001-
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 good pasture, atop N-S running ridge, gentle slope to E. Circular area (29m N-S; 28m E-W), enclosed by two heavily overgrown earthen banks with intervening fosse. Inner bank (H 1.4m), outer bank (H 1.8m), with causeway entrance to interior (Wth 2.8m) in the NE. Gap in inner bank to SW. Souterrain (MA109-014002-) in S of interior.
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. 127.
Date of upload: 22 February 2013
This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 2/1990).
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.