Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Cartron (hartland), County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cartron (hartland)
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.85613, -8.01999
- SMR number
- RO017-149----
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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 bottom of a S-facing slope of a drumlin and on the N shore of an isolated bay (dims c. 700m NW-SE; c. 250-450m NE-SW) of Grange Lough that is now separated from the main lake to the E. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 30m E-W; 28m N-S) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 4m; int. H 0.6-0.7m; ext. H 1.1-1.2m) and hedge NW-E-SE, which is reduced to a scarp and hedge (at W: H 1.2m) elsewhere, and an outer fosse (Wth of top 4.6m at N to 6.45m at S; Wth of base 2.6m at E to 2.9m at N; D 0.8-0.9m), which is re-cut as a field drain SE-W-NW. There is an entrance (Wth 4m) and causeway (Wth 5m) at ESE.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Crannogunder 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.