Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Carnakit, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carnakit
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.78543, -8.31982
- SMR number
- RO021-042033-
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
Visible on aerial photographs (ACAP: V206/8,9), and situated on the S-facing slope of a WNW-ESE ridge. Rectangular grass-covered area (dims c. 80m E-W; c. 70m N-S) defined by a flat-topped earthen bank (at N: Wth of base 3m; Wth of top 1.4m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 0.6m) and outer fosse (at N: Wth of base 2.8m; D 0.3m) at N and at the E end of the S side, but the perimeter elsewhere has been removed. Just outside the NE angle there is a house site (RO021-042047-) (ext. dims 6.8m E-W; 4.6m N-S) defined by an earthen bank (Wth c. 1.6m; H 0.3m) with an entrance on each long wall.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.