Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Cartron (ballymoe By., Cloonygormican Ed), County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cartron (ballymoe By., Cloonygormican Ed)
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.70170, -8.26236
- SMR number
- RO035-032----
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 gentle E-facing slope. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 33m N-S; 33m E-W) defined by an earthen bank with some bushes (Wth 2.7-3.8m; int. H 0.1-0.4m; ext. H 0.9-1.8m) which is reduced to a scarp (H 1m) S-W. A rounded fosse (Wth of top 4-4.2m; Wth of base 1-2m; D 0.4-0.85m) survives WSW-N but has been quarried away NE-ESE, and there are other quarries outside the perimeter at S. There is no identifiable original entrance, but relict field banks (Wth 1.4-2m; H 0.4-0.6m) are attached to the perimeter at WNW and NE. Rath (RO035-031----) is c. 180m to the SSW.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.