Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Corkeenagh, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Corkeenagh
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.82701, -8.05897
- SMR number
- RO023-037----
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
Just off the crest of a small NW-SE drumlin ridge on a gentle E-facing slope overlooking Grange Lough c. 200m to the SE. Circular overgrown area (diam. 39m N-S; 37.6m E-W) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (Wth 5-6.4m; int. H 0.8-1.1m; ext. H 1-1.7m) which is reduced to a scarp (H 1.8m) E-S, and a fosse (Wth of top 4.4-5.5m; Wth of base 1.7-2.3m; D 0.4-0.6m) which is obscured with spoil W-N. The original entrance is not identified.
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
- Mill - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.