Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Corbaun, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Corbaun
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.88973, -8.06339
- SMR number
- RO017-054----
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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. Oval grass-covered but poached area (dims 39.5m E-W; 31m N-S) defined by an earthen bank (at E: Wth 2.85m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 0.7m; at N: Wth 4.4m; int. H 0.9m; ext. H 1.25m) with some bushes WSW-N-E which is reduced to a scarp (H 0.7m) elsewhere, and an outer fosse (Wth of top 4m; Wth of base 2.5-3.3m; D 0.2-0.4m) N-NE. There is no visible entrance, but an E-W field bank and hedge overlies the interior towards the perimeter at S. Rath (RO017-053----) is c. 30m to the N.
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.