Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Cartron (ballintober South By., Kilbride North Ed), County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cartron (ballintober South By., Kilbride North Ed)
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.72828, -8.18677
- SMR number
- RO028-209001-
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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 SE-facing slope. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 24m E-W; 23m N-S) defined by an earthen scrub-covered bank (Wth 4.7-5.7m; int. H 0.1-0.5m; ext. H 1.25-1.75m) which is reduced to a scarp (H 1.2m) NW-N-NE. A rounded fosse (Wth of top 5.1-6.2m; Wth of base 2.5-2.7m; D 0.5-1m) survives ENE-S-WNW, and the entrance (Wth 3m) and causeway (Wth 2.2m) are at ENE.
A rectangular enclosure or annexe (RO028-209002-) (dims 26m NNE-SSW; 25m WNW-ESE) is attached to the E, and is defined by a scrub-covered earthen bank (Wth 5.4m; int. H 0.45m; ext. H 1.4m) and rounded fosse (Wth of top 5.6m; Wth of base 2.3m; D 0.7m) at S, but the perimeter is cut by a quarry at E and an NW-SE drystone wall and townland boundary with Carroward at N. A test excavation (04E1504) on the site of a new house c. 80m to the S in produced no related archaeological material (Morahan 2007a).
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
References
Morahan, L 2007a Cartron. No archaeological significance. in I. Bennett (ed.) Excavations 2004: summary accounts of arc archaeological excavations in Ireland, 376, No. 1446. Dublin, Wordwell
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.