Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - unclassified
Corraslira, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Corraslira
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.79341, -8.15983
- SMR number
- RO023-108----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
Marked as a circular embanked and wooded enclosure (ext. diam. c. 60m) with buildings on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated on a gentle S-facing slope at the W end of a low E-W drumlin ridge. Circular area (diam. 46m NE-SW) containing the ruins of a farmhouse and outbuildings which is defined by an earthen bank (Wth 4.3m; int. H 1.4m; ext. H 1.6m) NE-E, a collapsed wall E-S, a low scarp (H 0.9m at SW) S-NW, and a stone wall NW-NE. A NNW-SSE lane crosses the W part of the site. There is no visible fosse or recognizable original entrance.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
- Crannogunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.