Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Corbaun, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Corbaun
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.89039, -8.06322
- SMR number
- RO017-053----
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 low rise in a low-lying landscape. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 32.5m N-S; 30.8m E-W) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 5m at W to 6.3m at E; int H 0.25m at N to 0.95m at S; ext. H 1.3m at S to 1.6m at W) separated by a fosse (Wth of top 6-6.8m; Wth of base 4-4.7m; D 1.1-1.4m) from an outer bank (Wth 4.7-5.8m; ext. H 0.9-1.3m) with some bushes. There is an entrance (Wth 3m) through both banks at NE. Rath (RO017-054----) is c. 30m to the S.
See the attached image taken from the SW with this monument in the left background.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 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.