Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Carrowreagh (frenchpark By.), County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrowreagh (frenchpark By.)
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.88679, -8.38178
- SMR number
- RO015-013----
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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 a gentle SE-facing slope. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 48.5m E-W; 46.5m N-S) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 2.8-3m; int. H 0.35m; ext. H 0.75m) W-NNW which is is reduced to a scarp (H 0.5-0.8m) NW-E and incorporated into a field bank elsewhere. There is a fosse (Wth of base 5-5.3m; D 0.4-.6m) and outer bank (Wth 4.5m; ext. H 0.2m) W-NW, but there is no identifiable original entrance.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.