Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Carnakit, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carnakit
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.78924, -8.32411
- SMR number
- RO021-042024-
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
At the N-facing crest of a WNW-ESE ridge. D-shaped grass-covered area (dims 27.3m NNE-SSW; 27.4m WNW-ESE) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 3.3m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 0.7m) N-E reduced to a scarp (H 0.6-0.8m) elsewhere, and a fosse (Wth of base 2-3.1m; D 0.1-0.8m) which is surrounded by field banks (Wth 2.2-2.7m; H 0.4-0.7m). The straight sides are at S and W. There is no identifiable original entrance, but there is a rectangular house site (RO021-042045-) (ext. dims 10m E-W; 3m N-S) of two rooms inside the perimeter at S, and a depression (dims 5.7m N-S; 2m E-W; D 0.6m) inside the bank at W with a spur to the E (dim. 2m E-W) at its S end which may be a souterrain (RO021-042025-). Rath (RO021-042026-) is c. 150m to the ESE.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.