Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Cloonacarrow (boyle By.), County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloonacarrow (boyle By.)
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.97394, -8.15731
- SMR number
- RO007-066----
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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
Marked only on the 1914 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated on low-lying ground with the S tip of Cootehall Lough (max. dims c. 650m NW-SE; c. 280m NE-SW) c. 150m to the NNW. D-shaped grass-covered area (int. dims 29.2m NNW-SSE; 27.5m ENE-SSW) defined by a grass-covered stone spread (Wth 1.9-4.5m; int. H 0.05-0.75m; ext. H 0.1-0.9m) NW-E-S, but the perimeter has been removed elsewhere and the straight edge (L c. 25m) is at NE. There is an entrance (Wth 1.75m) at ESE. Cashel (RO007-067----) is c. 60m to the ESE, and rath (RO007-065----) is c. 180m to the NE.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.