Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Carrowmore (boyle By., Rockingham Ed), County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrowmore (boyle By., Rockingham Ed)
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.95383, -8.24666
- SMR number
- RO006-138----
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 the gentle SE-facing slope. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 30.5m N-S; 30m E-W) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 5-6m; int. H 0.25m at N to 0.75m at S; ext. H 0.55m at N to 1.1m at S) with intermittently visible inner and outer facing-stones N-E-SW, and a scarp down to the interior (H 0.25m) elsewhere. There is no visible fosse, but the entrance (Wth 2.2m) is at E.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Barrow - mound barrowunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.