Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Cartron (frenchpark By.), County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cartron (frenchpark By.)
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.88723, -8.19759
- SMR number
- RO016-024001-
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
In a hollow on an undulating landscape. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 34m) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (Wth 4-4.7m; int. H 0.3-0.65m; ext. H 1.6-1.8m) WNW-E-SW which is reduced to a scarp (H 1.1-1.4m) elsewhere, and an outer fosse (Wth of base 2.5-4m; D 0.3-0.75m) N-NE and E-S. A gap (Wth 4m) in the bank at ENE may be the original entrance. A circular hut-site (RO016-024002-) (int. diam. 3.7-4m) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 2.4-3.4m; int. H 0.4-0.7m; ext. H 0.3-0.5m) is just W of the centre. Cashel (RO016-025001-) is c. 40m to the ENE.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.