Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Keelcurragh Or Carrowreagh,ballinwully, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Keelcurragh Or Carrowreagh,ballinwully
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.69157, -8.08199
- SMR number
- RO036-016----
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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
Depicted as a circular enclosure with a broad bank (int. diam. c. 25m; ext. diam. c. 55m) on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated on a S-facing slope. It is not visiible at ground level in pasture, apart from the curve of a field bank and townland boundary with Ballinwully NW-NE (C 48m). An earthen fort at Ballinwilly, which may have been this site, was lost by Robert Nugent to Irish rebels before 1596 (Cronin 1980, 118).
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
References
Cronin, T. 1980 The Elizabethan colony in Co. Roscommon. In Murtagh, H. Irish midland studies: essays in commemoration of N.W. English, 107-20. Old Athlone Society.
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.