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
- Multivallate enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.92100, -8.39097
- SMR number
- RO009-017----
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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 an E-W ridge. Circular overgrown platform (diam. 29m; H 1.5-2.1m) separated by a fosse (Wth of base 6-6.3m; D 1.2-1.35m) from an earthen bank (Wth 5.2-6.7m; ext. H 1.5-1.8m), which is separated by a second fosse (Wth of base 3.7-4m; D 0.8-1.3m) from an outer bank (Wth 4.8-5.2m; H 1-1.5m). There is no visible entrance, and a drainage ditch circumscribes the outer bank W-NE (max. ext. diam. c. 65m). Rath (RO009-041----) is c. 190m to the SE, on the S side of an E-W stream.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.