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Ringfort - rath

Carrowgarve (Roscommon By.),Lismurtagh (Castlereagh By.), County Roscommon, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Carrowgarve, Lismurtagh, County Roscommon, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Carrowgarve (Roscommon By.),Lismurtagh (Castlereagh By.)
County
Roscommon
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
53.75715, -8.27550
SMR number
RO028-063002-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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

On a slight rise of the broad WNW-ESE Carnfree ridge. It has been identified as part of Dumha Selga, which has mythological associations (FitzPatrick 2004, 64-5). Subcircular grass-covered area (dims 42m E-W; 36.5m N-S) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 4-5.5m; int. H 0.3-0.5m; ext. H 1.4-1.8m) and outer fosse (Wth of top 6.2-8m; Wth of base 2-4m; D 0.5-0.8m) which incorporates the fosse of bowl-barrow (RO028-063001-) SE-SW where the rath (ext. diam. 55.9m E-W) destroys the barrow's bank.
There is a hut-site (RO028-063003-), visible as a subcircular platform (dims 10m E-W; 6m N-S; H 0.1-0.4m) at the centre. The entrance (Wth 3m) and causeway (Wth 4m) are at ENE, and the interior is overlain by a WNW-ESE field wall and townland boundary with Carrowgarve to the N. There is another wall running N from it situated close to the perimeter at E. Barrow (RO028-063005-) is c. 50m to the NE and barrow (RO028-063004-) is c. 70m to the SE. Geophysical survey confirms the central hut-site, but provides no evidence of other structures within the rath. (Waddell et al. 2009, 127-35)

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Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 24 August 2010

References

FitzPatrick, E. 2004 Royal inauguration in Gaelic Ireland c.1100-1600: a cultural landscape study. Studies in Celtic History 22. Woodbridge. The Boydell Press.

Waddell, J., Fenwick, J. and Barton, K. 2009 Rathcroghan: archaeological and geophysical survey in a ritual landscape. Dublin. Wordwell.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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