Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Carrowgarve (roscommon By.), County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrowgarve (roscommon By.)
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.76139, -8.28950
- SMR number
- RO028-055----
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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
Towards the bottom of a gentle NW-facing slope. Subcircular grass and rush-covered area (dims 41m E-W; 35m N-S) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 2.5-2.7m; int. H 0.2-0.4m; ext. H 0.7-1.1m) SSE-W-NNW which is reduced to a scarp (H 0.2-0.8m) elsewhere. There is a fosse represented by a band of reeds (Wth of base 2.5m generally to 7m at E) which is truncated by a NW-SE field bank at SW. The entrance (Wth 2.2m) and causeway (Wth 2.4m) are at NNW.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.