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
- 53.86118, -8.21427
- SMR number
- RO016-100----
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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 E-facing slope of a W-E spur. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 47m N-S) defined by a gapped earthen bank (Wth 2.85-3.3m; int. H 0.25-0.5m; ext. H 0.45-0.9m) SE-W-NNW which is reduced to a scarp with some bushes (H 0.9m) elsewhere, and traces of a complete outer fosse in a band of reeds. There is no visible entrance and some spoil obscures the perimeter at SW. Rath (RO016-099----) is c. 140m to the WSW, rath (RO072----) is c. 90m to the N and rath (RO016-073----) is c. 180m to the ENE.
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.