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
- 53.78634, -8.32151
- SMR number
- RO021-042032-
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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 the S-facing slope of a WNW-ESE ridge. Circular grass-covered platform (diam. 21.8m N-S; 20m E-W) which remains unplanted in a coniferous forest, defined by a scarp (H 1m at S to 2.2m at W) separated by a berm (Wth 4-5m) from an outer bank (Wth 2.6m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 0.4m) S-NW which is incorporated into a field bank NW-E. A dip in the perimeter of the mound at S may be an entrance (max. ext. diam. c. 40m).
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.