Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Carroward (ballintober South By., Kilbride North Ed), County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carroward (ballintober South By., Kilbride North Ed)
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.72813, -8.17433
- SMR number
- RO028-211001-
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 at the E end of a low WNW-ESE ridge. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 29.5m N-S; 29.4 E-W) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 3.1-4.7m; int. H 0.1-0.3m; ext. H 0.4-0.9m) and an outer rounded fosse (Wth of top 5.2-6.4m; Wth of base 2.2-2.6m; D 0.25m). The entrance (Wth 2.2m) and causeway (Wth 4m) are at ENE. A hollow (dims 8.5m NNE-SSW; 2m WNW-ESE; D 0.5m) inside the perimeter at N may be a collapsed souterrain (RO028-211002-). Enclosure (RO028-238----) is c. 100m to the NW.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.