Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Carrownurlar (roscommon By. ), County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrownurlar (roscommon By. )
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.84431, -8.17129
- SMR number
- RO016-133----
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
On a SW-facing slope. Subcircular grass-covered but poached area (dims 37m N-S; 31m E-W) defined by a scrub-covered earthen bank (Wth 2.7m; int. H 0.2-0.55m; ext. H 0.3-1.1m) at SW and WNW-ESE which is reduced to a scarp (H 0.25m at W to 1m at S) elsewhere, and an outer fosse (Wth of base 1.5m at NE to 3m at W; D 0.15-0.4m) W-N-SE. A field bank and drain circumscribe the perimeter at S. Enclosure (RO016-132----) is c. 200m to the NE.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Enclosure - large enclosureunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.