Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Carrowkeel (boyle By.), County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrowkeel (boyle By.)
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.91136, -8.30600
- SMR number
- RO010-055----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 level low-lying landscape with a small E-W stream or drain c. 40m to the N. Circular overgrown area (diam. c. 26m) defined by an earthen bank with some bushes (Wth 7.5-8.5m; int. H 1m; ext. H 1.2-1.8m) and an outer band (Wth 3-4m) of wet ground indicating a fosse. There is no visible entrance, and an outer bank has been removed since 1983 (SMR file). Ditch barrow (RO010-054----) is c. 100m to the WNW.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
References
SMR file - Sites and monuments record files in the National Monuments Service, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage.
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.