Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Corrabaun, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Corrabaun
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.79708, -8.19694
- SMR number
- RO022-094----
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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 a slight E-W ridge in a low-lying landscape. Subcircular or D-shaped area (dims 62m N-S; 56m E-W) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (Wth 3m; int. H 0.6m; ext. H 1m) and outer fosse (Wth of base 2m; D 0.2m) NE-SE, and a scarp (H 0.2-0.6m) elsewhere. There is an entrance (Wth 1m) at SE. The interior is overlain by a N-S road E of the centre and is overgrown E of this and grass-covered and barely perceptible W of it.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Concentric enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.