Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Corboghil, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Corboghil
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.75120, -8.13496
- SMR number
- RO029-059----
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
Marked as an oval embanked enclosure (ext. dims c. 35m NE-SW; c. 25m NW-SE) on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map and as a small D-shaped field on the 1915 ed. Situated on a gentle W-facing slope with a NW-SE stream or drain c. 140m to the SW. D-shaped grass-covered area (dims 28m E-W; 26.9m N-S) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 5.8m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 1m) SW-NW, but the monument is truncated by straight field banks at N, E and S. There is no visible fosse or identifiable original entrance.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.