Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Carrowmore (ballintober South By.), County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrowmore (ballintober South By.)
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.62451, -8.14583
- SMR number
- RO040-033----
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
At the W edge of a plateau. Circular grass-covered platform (diam. 45.7m NW-SE; 43m NE-SW) defined by a rounded fosse (Wth of top 8.6-10.7m; Wth of base 2.4-3.4m; int. D 1.6-1.8m; ext. D 0.4-1.1m) E-S-WNW and at N with a causeway (Wth 2.8m) at SW. The monument is slightly truncated by a NW-SE field bank at NE and does not survive beyond it.
See the attached aerial image taken from the W
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosure - large enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- House - 16th/17th centuryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.