Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Carrigeen (ballintober North By.), County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrigeen (ballintober North By.)
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.83130, -8.01092
- SMR number
- RO024-001----
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
On a gentle E-facing slope. Circular grass and rush-covered area (diam. 39m N-S; 38.5m E-W) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (Wth 2.6-3.6m; int. H 0.6-0.9m; ext. H 0.8-1.2m) which is reduced to a scarp (H 1.8m) NNE-ESE, and a fosse (Wth of top 3.4-4.2m; Wth of base 1.9-2.2m; D 0.6-0.9m) ESE-W-NNE. There is no identifiable original entrance. Rath (RO024-003----) is c. 210m to the SSE.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Settlement clusterunder 1 mi
- Road - road/trackwayunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.