Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Carrownamaddy (Roscommon By.), County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrownamaddy (Roscommon By.)
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.83343, -8.11839
- SMR number
- RO023-021001-
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
On a broad, low rise. Oval or D-shaped grass-covered area (dims 68m N-S; 51.4m E-W) defined by an earthen bank with some bushes (Wth 3.7-3.8m; int. H 0.2-0.5m; ext. H 0.5-1m), which is reduced to a scarp N-NE (H 1.1m) and SSE-WSW (H 1.5m), and a shallow fosse (Wth of base 1.7-2m; D 0.2-0.6m) NW-E-SSW with traces of a later field bank outside it N-NE. There is no identifiable original entrance. Rath (RO023-020----) is c. 210m to the WSW.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.