Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Carrownurlar (frenchpark By.), County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrownurlar (frenchpark By.)
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.90096, -8.43526
- SMR number
- RO009-051----
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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 the crest at the E end of a low WNW-ESE ridge. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 26.5m N-S) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 2.8-3m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 1-1.2m) WSW-NW with slight traces of a bank at NE and S, and a scarp (H 0.5-0.9m) elsewhere. There are slight traces of a fosse (Wth of base 3.5m; D 0.1-0.2m) at SE and SW. There is no visible entrance, but there is a mound (RO009-051001-) (diam. 4.2m; H 0.3m) just W of the centre.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.