Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Round tower
Carroweighter, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carroweighter
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Round Tower
- Coordinates
- 53.67386, -8.34023
- SMR number
- RO034-080003-
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
Towards the bottom of the S-facing slope at the SE end of a broad NW-SE ridge. The round tower (ext. diam. 6m; surviving H 3.6m) of Oran church (RO034-080001-) is composed of well-laid courses of limestone over a plinth (H 0.3m) (Crawford 1913; Barrow 1979; Lalor 1999, 213) and is 15m WSW of the surviving wall of the church.
See the attached view from the W.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
References
Lennox Barrow, G. 1979 The round towers of Ireland: a study and gazetteer. Dublin. The Academy Press.
Crawford, H.S. 1913d Oran round tower, Co. Roscommon. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 42, 170-72.
Lalor, B. 1999 The Irish round tower. Wilton, Cork. Collins Press.
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Architectural fragmentunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.