Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Cartron (athlone North By., Lismaha Ed),cloonlaughnan, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cartron (athlone North By., Lismaha Ed),cloonlaughnan
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.51980, -8.25178
- SMR number
- RO044-035----
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
On a level low-lying landscape. Circular grass-covered but poached area (diam. 49.6m N-S; 47m E-W) defined by an earth and stone bank (Wth 5.8-6.8m; int. H 0.3m at S to 0.8-1.1m generally; ext. H 0.9m at S to 1.4-2m generally) and hedge, which is incorporated into a field bank NE-S-W and forms the townland boundary with Cloonlaughnan SE-SW. There is a complete rounded fosse (Wth of top 6.7-8m; Wth of base 2.5-3.4m; D 0.5-0.6m), best preserved SSW-W and NW-NE. The entrance (Wth 2m) is at NW and a field bank circumscribes the monument NW-NE.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.