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In pasture, located on a rise in an area of mixed rough and average grassland. This rath is named ‘Rathoe’ on the 1838 and 1922 OS 6-inch maps. It is shown on the 1838 OS 6-inch map as a circular embanked enclosure, and on the 1922 edition as an oval enclosure (c. 30m N−S; c. 25m E−W), truncated by or incorporated into field boundaries on the NW arc, and bisected roughly centrally on a NNW−SSE axis by a field boundary. This rath has been partly levelled and the remainder is engulfed in overgrowth, making inspection difficult, however, the outline of a roughly oval area (25-30m NNE−SSW) can still be discerned, with a NNW−SSE field boundary extending through its centre. The E half of the enclosure (i.e. to NE of the bisecting field fence) has been levelled, and its outline is discernible only as a slightly raised area defined on the perimeter by a broad low slope. The W half of the enclosure is obscured by a dense thicket of blackthorn, hawthorn and brambles. A small section of the perimeter at SE-SW can be examined –here an arc of stone bank (Wth 3.3m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 0.6m), perhaps a collapsed wall, can be seen. This stone bank does not appear to be present on the NW arc, where there is now a field fence on a NNE−SSW axis. A small circular hachured feature is indicated on the 1922 OS 6-inch map in the SW quadrant of the rath. At roughly this location in the interior, there is a roughly circular heap of stones (diam. c. 4m N−S; c. 5m E−W; H 0.4-0.5m), now covered in overgrowth. It is not possible to be certain what this is; it resembles a field clearance cairn rather than a built structure. There is an enclosure (MA040-016----) c. 50m to SW. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 22 April 2020

Carrowcrom (also known as Rathoe) is a circular early-medieval ringfort, likely dating to between the 5th and 10th centuries AD. Local tradition associates such sites with the "fairy folk," and they were often avoided due to beliefs in their supernatural inhabitants.