Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Corbally Middle, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Corbally Middle
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.88698, -8.16064
- SMR number
- RO017-001----
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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 N-facing slope of a low NE-SW ridge. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 41m N-S; 39m E-W) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 3-3.2m; int. H 0.2-0.45m; ext. H 0.6-0.9m) NNE-S-NW and elsewhere by a scarp (H 0.9m), with an outer fosse (Wth of top 2.4-3.2m; Wth of base 1.8-2.6m; D 0.1-0.2m) which is truncated by an E-W field bank at N. An entrance (Wth 5.5m) at ENE may be the enlarged original entrance. Rath (RO017-206----) is c. 180m to the SW.
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.