Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Cloonacarrow (boyle By.), County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloonacarrow (boyle By.)
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.97159, -8.15954
- SMR number
- RO007-068----
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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
Towards the top of the SW-facing slope of a drumlin, c. 200m E of a N-S section of the Boyle River. Circular grass-covered area (diam. c. 23.5-24.5m) in reclaimed pasture defined by a scarp (H 0.1-0.7m), with a fosse (Wth of top 3-3.5m; D 0.1m) WNW-NE. There is no visible entrance, but the perimeter is truncated at SE by a NNE-SSW field bank. Rath (RO007-069----) is c. 60m to the ESE.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.