Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Carrowreagh (roscommon By.), County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrowreagh (roscommon By.)
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.88006, -8.15201
- SMR number
- RO017-007----
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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 terrace of an E-facing slope with a N-S stream c. 20m to the E. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 24m N-S; 23m E-W) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 4m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 0.8m) SSW-WNW, and a scarp (H 0.9-1.1m) elsewhere. There is no visible fosse or entrance. Rath (RO017-008----) is c. 140m to the SSE.
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.