Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Carrowkeel (frenchpark By., Breedoge Ed), County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrowkeel (frenchpark By., Breedoge Ed)
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.91985, -8.39518
- SMR number
- RO009-016----
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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 flat low-lying landscape with an ESE-WNW stream curving around the perimeter S-NW. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 24.5m E-W; 23.5m N-S) defined by an earthen bank with some bushes (at N: Wth 4.4m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 1.6m) W-WNW and N-E, with a fosse (Wth of base 2.4-3.4m; D 0.3-0.5m) NW-E-S. The stream occupies the site of the fosse S-NW, but there is no visible entrance.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 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.