Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Corrastoona More, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Corrastoona More
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.69328, -8.39046
- SMR number
- RO034-030----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
On a slight S-facing slope. D-shaped grass-covered area (dims 29m N-S; 11m E-W) defined by a low earthen bank (Wth 0.8-1.1m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 0.3-0.4m) S-W-N. It has been truncated by a N-S field bank at E and does not survive E of this feature. There is no visible fosse or identifiable original entrance but there is a D-shaped quarry (dims 16m N-S; 6m E-W; D 0.35-0.45m) at the centre of the surviving part. Rath (RO034-091----) is c. 90m to the SE.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.