Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Carrick (castlereagh By.), County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrick (castlereagh By.)
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.74915, -8.66261
- SMR number
- RO025-013----
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
Visible as a circular feature on aerial photographs (GSIAP: M 90-1), and situated on a gentle NE-facing slope with rock outcrop. Oval grass and heather-covered area (dims c. 24m E-W; c. 18m N-S) defined by the base of a stone wall with inner and outer facing-stones (Wth 1.3m; H 0.5-0.6m) NE-SE, which is reduced to occasional stones SE-WSW and NW-NE.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
References
GSIAP - Geological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1973). Geological Survey. Beggars Bush, Haddington Road, Dublin 4.
Nearby in the register
- Cairn - clearance cairnunder 1 mi
- Sweathouseunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.