Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Cartron (boyle By., Crossna Ed), County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cartron (boyle By., Crossna Ed)
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.01597, -8.17715
- SMR number
- RO003-055----
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 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
On a shelf on the NE-facing slope of a drumlin. Oval overgrown area (dims. 26m NE-SW; c. 20m NW-SE) defined by a stone spread (Wth 0.9m at E to 2.3m at W; int. H 0.1-0.5m; ext. H 0.6-0.9m) with intermittently visible facing stones (original Wth 0.8-1.2m). There is no visible entrance and the perimeter at N is incorporated into a field wall. Rath (RO003-054001-) is c. 180m to the SSW.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.