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
- 53.88114, -8.50754
- SMR number
- RO014-018001-
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 crest towards the SE end of a SE-NW spur. Subcircular grass-covered area (dims 48.3m N-S; 44.1m E-W) defined by a slight overgrown earthen bank (at S: Wth 3m; int. H 0.1m; ext. H 1.2m) SSE-WNW and a fosse (at N: Wth of top 6.1m; Wth of base 3.3m; int. D 0.9m; ext. D 0.2m) WNW-NE. The perimeter at E is incorporated into a field bank with an outer drain, and the monument is overlain by a N-S field bank towards the perimeter at E. There is no visible entrance.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.