Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Carrowmore (Ballintober North By.), County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrowmore (Ballintober North By.)
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.89370, -8.04569
- SMR number
- RO011-133----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
At the crest of the S-facing slope of a drumlin. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 43m N-S) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 4.5m; int. H 0.15-0.5m; ext. H 0.6-1m) NW-N and SSE-SSW which is incorporated into a field bank WSW-NW and reduced to a scarp (H 0.3m-1m) elsewhere. There is an outer fosse (Wth of top 4.3m; D 0.1-0.4m) SSW-NW which has been expanded into a pond at SW. The entrance (Wth 4.5m) is at SE. Rath (RO011-132----) is c. 80m to the W and rath (RO011-134----) is c. 120m to the ENE.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.