Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Corgarve (frenchpark By.), County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Corgarve (frenchpark By.)
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.86242, -8.21402
- SMR number
- RO016-072----
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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 E-facing slope. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 30.5m N-S) defined by a gapped earthen bank (Wth 2m at W to 3.7m at E (downslope); int. H 0.1m at E to 0.55m at SW; ext. H 0.5m at W to 1.3m at E) SW-NW and E-SE, and elsewhere by a scarp (H 0.5m at S to 0.95m at N), with an outer fosse (Wth of base 2-3.2m; D 0.2m) at SE and SW, represented by a band of wet ground (Wth 2m) E-S-NW. There is no visible entrance. Rath (RO016-100----) is c. 90m to the S and rath (RO016-073----) is c. 180m to the ESE.
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.