Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Carrickmore, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrickmore
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Cashel
- Coordinates
- 53.96384, -8.27267
- SMR number
- RO006-086003-
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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 rise at the W edge of a shelf on a N-facing slope. Circular grass-covered area (int. diam. 41.4m N-S; 40m E-W) defined by a rebuilt stone wall (Wth 3.7-4m; int. H 0.8-1.2m; ext. H 1.2-2m) with an extensive external spill (Wth of spill 4m at E to 7m at N; H 0.6m at N to 1.4m at W). There is an entrance (Wth 0.6m), which is not original, at SE (max. ext. dims 62.4m N-S; 57m E-W). Field walls from the field system (RO006-086008-) overlie the spill and attach to the re-built wall of the cashel at N, NE and SE. A house site (RO006-086010-) (int. dims 8m E-W; 32.5m N-S) defined by the base of a double-faced stone wall (Wth 0.9-1.1m; max. H 0.4m) is associated with the field walls and is just E of the cashel. Rath (RO006-086002-) is c. 30m to the N, and cashel (RO006-086004-) is c. 180m to the ESE.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.