Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Carrickilla, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrickilla
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.88356, -8.09559
- SMR number
- RO017-034001-
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
At the crest of an E-facing slope. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 31m) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 5-8m; int. H 0.3m at SW to 0.8m at NNW; ext. H 0.3m at SW to 0.8m at NNW) and hedge SW-N which is reduced to an overgrown scarp (H 1m) N-E and incorporated into a field bank and hedge E-SW, with an outer fosse (Wth of base 4m; D 0.3m) SW-W. There is no visible entrance. A possible house site (RO017-034002-), visible as a flat rise adjoining the inside of the bank at N in 1980 (SMR file), is not visible now at ground level. Rath (RO017-033----) is c. 170m to the NE.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
References
SMR file - Sites and monuments record files in the National Monuments Service, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage.
Nearby in the register
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.