Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Carrowgarve (frenchpark By.), County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrowgarve (frenchpark By.)
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.88257, -8.51574
- SMR number
- RO014-017----
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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 spine of a broad SE-NW spur. D-shaped grass and scrub-covered area (dims 45m N-S; 38m E-W) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (Wth 3-4m; int. H 0.3-0.7m; ext. H 0.8-1.1m) and outer fosse (Wth of base 2.2-2.6m; D 0.2-0.4m) NE-S-NW. The monument is truncated by an E-W field bank and the perimeter is reduced to a scarp (H 0.2m) at N. There is no visible entrance.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.