Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Cornacarta, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cornacarta
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.04107, -8.26637
- SMR number
- RO003-014----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Towards the bottom of a S-facing slope. Subcircular overgrown area (dims. 29m E-W; 26m N-S), which remains unplanted in a coniferous forest, defined by a stone spread (at W: Wth 0.8m; int. H 0.45m; ext. H 0.8m; at S: Wth 3.8m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 1.4m) partly rebuilt as field walls and with traces of facing stones (original Wth 1.8m), but there is no visible entrance. Rath (RO003-013001-) is c. 190m to the WNW.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Crannogunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.