Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Carrownamorheeny, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrownamorheeny
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.83669, -8.23478
- SMR number
- RO016-120----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
At the crest of a gentle NE-facing slope. Oval grass-covered area (dims 27m E-W; 21.5m N-S) defined by a scarp (H 0.5-0.8m NE-S to 1.7m S-W-NE), which is incorporated into a flat-topped field bank (Wth of base c. 3m; Wth of top 1.5m; int. H 0.6m; ext. H 1.5m) with a pond outside it SSW-NW, and an outer re-cut fosse (Wth of top 10m; Wth of base 2m; ext. D 1.7m) NW-NE. There is no visible entrance. Rath (RO016-121----) is c. 170m to the S.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Concentric enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.