Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Canbo, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Canbo
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.90557, -8.17324
- SMR number
- RO010-083001-
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 landscape with a N-S stream or drain c. 30m to the E which separates it from the fortified house of Canbo (RO010-084001-), c. 80m distant. D-shaped grass-covered platform (dims 23m N-S; 18m E-W) defined by a gapped and overgrown earthen bank (Wth 2.5m; int. H 0.1m at SE to 0.45m at NE; ext. H 0.3m at SE to 0.8m at NE) at NE, SE and SW, and elsewhere by a scarp (H 0.2m at E to 0.75m at W and S). There is no visible fosse or entrance. An enclosure or annexe (RO010-083002-) to the E is a rectangular grass-covered area (dims 20m E-W; 16.5m N-S) defined by a low scarp (H 0.5-1m).
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Bawnunder 1 mi
- House - 16th/17th centuryunder 1 mi
- Crannogunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.