Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Carrowclogher, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrowclogher
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.75133, -8.11077
- SMR number
- RO029-070001-
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 low-lying landscape with a SW-NE stream or drain c. 10m to the SE. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 30.4m E-W; 28.1m N-S) defined by a low earthen bank (Wth 2-4.2m; int. H 0.1-0.2m; ext. H 0.3-0.6m) which has some whitethorn bushes and is reduced to a scarp (H 0.9m) WSW-NW. There is no visible fosse or identifiable original entrance. A rectangular house-site (RO029-070002-) (ext. dims 5m N-S; 3m E-W) defined by a stony bank (Wth 0.9m; H 0.1m) is attached to the inside of the bank at E.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.