Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ardcarn (boyle By.), County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ardcarn (boyle By.)
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.96311, -8.19774
- SMR number
- RO006-160----
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 of rock outcrop in a low-lying landscape. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 27m) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 6-8.3m; int. H 0.4-0.75m; ext. H 0.5-1.1m) which is surmounted by the spread of a collapsed drystone wall (Wth 1.3-2.35m; H 0.1m). There is no visible fosse or entrance, and the perimeter has been quarried at NE and SE. Cashel (RO006-161001-) is c. 40m to the SE.
See the attached aerial image taken from the SE with this monument at the centre.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Road - road/trackwayunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.