Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Carrickbeg (athlone North By.), County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrickbeg (athlone North By.)
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.53847, -8.21582
- SMR number
- RO044-020----
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
Towards the bottom of a gentle E and S-facing slope of a WNW-ESE ridge. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 32.8m E-W; 30.2m N-S) defined by an earth and stone bank (Wth 5-5.8m; int. H 0.7-1.2m; ext. H 0.55-1m), with a slight fosse (Wth of top 4.4m; Wth of base 1.2m; D 0.2m) SW-NW. There is an entrance (Wth 1.8m) at SW.
See the attached aerial view taken from the NE
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
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- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.