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Ringfort - rath

Carrowreagh (Boyle By.), County Roscommon, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Carrowreagh, County Roscommon, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Carrowreagh (Boyle By.)
County
Roscommon
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.90725, -8.14013
SMR number
RO011-184----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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

Situated on level pasture at base of the E-facing slope of a low hillock. It was first identified by Susan Curran as part of an M.A. thesis with University College Dublin using a LiDAR survey dataset commissioned by Leitrim County Council and the National Roads Authority. This is a subcircular grass-covered area (dims 32m E-W; c. 28m N-S) defined by a low scarp (at SE: Wth 1.5m; H 0.15m) which is best preserved NE-S-NW but which has been straightened at N where it is slightly truncated by an E-W land drain. There is an outer fosse (at SE: Wth of top 4.2m; Wth of base 1.4m; D 0.15m) SE-SW, which is probably incorporated into a S-N and W-E field drain at W and N. There is no visible entrance but traces of a N-S field bank overlie the centre of the monument.

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 12 May 2015

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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