Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
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
- 53.78829, -8.31862
- SMR number
- RO021-042043-
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 crest of the N-facing slope of a WNW-ESE ridge. D-shaped grass-covered area (dims 48.5m N-S; 21m E-W) defined by a scarp (H 0.5m) S-W-N, with a fosse (Wth of top 5.2m; Wth of base 3m; D 0.3m) W-NW. There is no identifiable original entrance, and it is cut at E by a field bank of field system (RO021-042046-). Souterrain (RO021-042044-) is in the interior. Rath (RO021-042026-) is c. 120m to the WNW.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.