Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Cartroncarrowntogher, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cartroncarrowntogher
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.86707, -8.24988
- SMR number
- RO016-050001-
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
Towards the bottom of a SW-facing slope. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 36.8m E-W; 34m N-S) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 3.3m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 1.4m) NW-N which is reduced to a scarp (H 0.45m at S to 1.5m at W) elsewhere, and an outer fosse (Wth of top 6.8m; Wth of base 5m; D 0.4m at W to 1m at N) W-NNE. There is no visible entrance, but a rectangular house-site (RO016-050002-) (int. dims 9m N-S; 7m E-W) defined by earthen banks (Wth 2.5-2.7m; H 0.2-0.5m) which is inside the perimeter at W has been partially quarried away together with the perimeter here.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Barrow - mound barrowunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.