Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Carrownurlar (Roscommon By. ), County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrownurlar (Roscommon By. )
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.84265, -8.16017
- SMR number
- RO017-153----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
On a rise on a NE-facing slope. Subcircular grass-covered area (dims 28.5m N-S; 24m E-W) defined by an earthen bank with some bushes (Wth 5m; int. H 0.6m; ext. H 1.2-1.5m) NE-SE and at W, and elsewhere by a scarp (H 0.9m at S to 1.75m at N). There is a stone-lined entrance (Wth. 3.3m) at E, but there is no visible fosse.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Crannogunder 1 mi
- Enclosure - large enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.