County: Mayo Site name: CARROWBRACK, Castlebar
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: —
Author: The Department of Archaeology, U.C.G., under the direction of Mr Etienne Rynne.
Site type: Barrow - unclassified
Period/Dating: Bronze Age (2200 BC-801 BC)
ITM: E 522957m, N 776021m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.728151, -9.167507
A small low flat-topped mound about 12 metres in diameter, surrounded by a ditch about 1.3 metres wide and 70cm deep, not far from the well-known Carrowjames barrows.
A flat-bottomed pit, about 50cm in diameter and 45cm deep, containing cremated bones and charcoal fragments, was at the centre and had a gapped stone setting around its top with a shallow- pit nearby also containing cremated bones. By analogy with the Carrowjames I sites, a Middle Bronze Age date can be postulated.
