Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Carns, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carns
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.75572, -8.25752
- SMR number
- RO028-245----
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
Just off the crest of the N-facing slope of a slight WNW-ESE ridge c. 250m N of the broad WNW-ESE Carnfree ridge. D-shaped grass-covered area (dims 22.7m ENE-WSW; 14.6m NNW-SSE) defined by a fosse (Wth of base 1.4-1.7m; int. D 0.2-0.3m; ext. D 0.1-0.2m) WSW-N-ENE, with slight traces of an internal bank (Wth 2.6m; int. H 0.1m) WSW-W. It is truncated at S by an ENE-WSW road. Barrow (RO028-068001-) is c. 140m to the W.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.