Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Cartron (boyle By., Danesfort Ed), County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cartron (boyle By., Danesfort Ed)
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.91599, -8.11231
- SMR number
- RO011-073----
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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 SE-facing slope of a NE-SW drumlin ridge. Circular overgrown area (diam. c. 25m) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 4m; int. H 0.2-0.6m; ext. H 1m) S-W-N and a scarp (H 1-1.2m) elsewhere, with a fosse (Wth of base 3m; D 0.2-0.9m) SW-N but a drain circumscribes the perimeter E-S. There is no visible entrance. Enclosure (RO011-163----) is c. 190m to the NW.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Enclosure - large enclosureunder 1 mi
- Mill - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.