Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Corboley, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Corboley
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.56524, -8.10242
- SMR number
- RO042-059----
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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 gently undulating landscape. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 34m E-W) defined by an earthen bank (at SW: Wth 3.6m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 0.55m) SSW-NNW which is incorporated into a field bank NNW-ENE but removed elsewhere. Traces of a fosse at NW noted in 1974 (SMR file) are no longer visible, and there is no identifiable original entrance. Rath (RO042-060----) is c. 60m to the ENE.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
References
SMR file - Sites and monuments record files in the National Monuments Service, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage.
Nearby in the register
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.