Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Newtowncarrigans, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Newtowncarrigans
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.65389, -8.32723
- SMR number
- RO038-002----
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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
At the crest of an E-facing slope. Irregularly-shaped grass and tree-covered area (dims c. 50m NNE-SW; c. 40m E-W) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 9m; int. H 1.2m; ext. H 2.6m) SSW-W, which has been reduced to a scarp (H 0.95m) NW-N and NE-E (H 0.6m), but which has been obscured by spoil E-SSW and damaged by quarrying elsewhere. It is surrounded by a fosse (Wth of top 9.5-10.8m; Wth of base 1.5-7.5m; D 1-1.8m) and an outer bank (Wth 2.6-5.1m; H 0.7-0.9m) planted with mature deciduous trees SSW-N-ESE. A limekiln is built on the outer bank at W.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.