Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Carrownalassan, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrownalassan
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.71917, -8.19690
- SMR number
- RO035-117----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (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 gentle S-facing slope with outcropping rock. Subcircular grass-covered area (int. dims 26.7m N-S; 23m E-W) defined by a grass-covered stone spread (Wth 2-2.3m; H 0.1-0.3m) SSW-N-SE with intermittently visible facing-stones (at N: original Wth 1.2m). There is no identifiable original entrance. Rath (RO028-215----) is c. 150m to the NNE.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.