Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Carrownaknockaun,curraghard, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrownaknockaun,curraghard
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.85002, -8.64192
- SMR number
- RO013-015----
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 the NE-facing slope of a broad NW-SE ridge. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 38m E-W; 35.7m N-S) defined by an earthen bank with some bushes (Wth 3.1m at N to 6m at W; int. H 0.8-1m; ext. H 1.5-1.8m) which is incorporated into a field bank and townland boundary with Curraghard (Wth 2.8m; int. H 1m; ext. H 2.1m) NE-SE. There is no visible fosse, and there are modern entrances at NNW (Wth 1.3m), NNE (Wth 1.3m), SSW (Wth 1.5m) and W (Wth 3m).
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.