Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Lecarrow (frenchpark By., Aughrim West Ed), County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lecarrow (frenchpark By., Aughrim West Ed)
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.89567, -8.16839
- SMR number
- RO010-126----
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 slight rise at the W end of a low E-W ridge with higher ground to the W. Circular grass-covered platform (diam. 26m E-W; 25.7m N-S) defined by a scarp (H 0.3m at S to 1.6m at N) separated by a berm (Wth 3.2m at N to 6.3m at S) from a scarp (H 0.6-0.8m), which is incorporated into a field bank (Wth 2.4m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 1m) with an outer fosse (Wth of top 4.4m; D 0.1m) S-WSW. There is no visible entrance (max. ext. diam. 50m N-S; 49.3m E-W).
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.