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Ringfort - rath

Carrowroe, County Longford, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Carrowroe, County Longford, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Carrowroe
County
Longford
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Fort
Latest-edition OS map
Indicated
Coordinates
53.64277, -7.98938
SMR number
LF017-015----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · 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

On a NE-facing slope in pasture. A raised subcircular area (54.5m NW-SE; 51.2m NE-SW) enclosed by a low bank of earth and stone (Wth 4.3m; H 1.1m max.) with an external fosse (Wth 4.1m; D 0.6m). Drystone masonry has been applied to the outer face of the bank in places. A modern field bank at the outer lip of the fosse, from SSW-N-NNE and from ESE-SE-SSE, may have been fashioned from a pre-existing outer bank. Elsewhere the fosse has been infilled but its outline is still identifiable. The original entrance is not recognisable. A short distance inside the bank at NNW is a low, subrectangular mound of earth and stone (10.8m N-S; 4.5m E-W; H 0.1m -0.4m) of uncertain significance.

Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan

Date of upload: 26 August 2011

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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