Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Carrigeen (boyle By.), County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrigeen (boyle By.)
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.98355, -8.09421
- SMR number
- RO007-052----
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 top of a small drumlin. Circular grass and rush-covered but poached area (diam. 27.5m N-S) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (Wth 4-5m; int. H 0.2-0.5m; ext. H 1-1.3m) and outer fosse (Wth of top 4m at N to 5.2m at E; D 0.1-0.3m). There is no visible entrance and field banks circumscribe the fosse S-W.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Crannogunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.