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
- 53.74718, -8.65825
- SMR number
- RO025-014001-
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-covered area (int. diam. c. 33m N-S; c. 31m E-W) defined by a wall (Wth 1m; H 0.3m-0.5m) SE-NW. A rectangular house-site (RO025-014002-) (ext. dims 8.6m ENE-WSW; 4.4m NNW-SSE) defined by the outer facing-stones of the of the N, E and S sides is at the centre. Rath (RO025-015----) is c. 130m to the SSW.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 11/1987).
Nearby in the register
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Cairn - clearance cairnunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.