Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Carrowkeel (roscommon By., Elphin Ed), County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrowkeel (roscommon By., Elphin Ed)
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.85088, -8.14941
- SMR number
- RO017-122001-
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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 of a low E-W ridge. D-shaped grass-covered area (dims c. 27.5m N-S; c. 20m E-W) defined by a gapped and overgrown earthen bank (Wth 2.8-4m; int. H 0.5-0.7m; ext. H 0.7-1.2m) NNW-E-SSE, with an outer fosse (Wth of base 3.3m; D 0.2m) N-NE. The site is truncated by a N-S field bank at W, and an E-W road bank at S. A rectangular grass-covered enclosure or annexe (RO017-122002-) (int. dims 24m N-S; 22m E-W) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 3.4-4m; int. H 0.3-0.5m; ext. H 0.7-1m) at N and E is attached to the SE, but it is cut by the road bank at S. Rath (RO017-121----) is c. 190m to the NW.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.