Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Garrynphort (athlone North By.), County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Garrynphort (athlone North By.)
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.49114, -8.17363
- SMR number
- RO044-131----
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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
In low-lying pasture near the former W-shore of Lough Croan (a turlough) in an area still liable to occasional flood. Reported by Jean-Charles Caillere. Visible on Google Earth aerial imagery (16-3-2011) as a circular enclosure (est. diam. c. 20m) defined by a fosse (est. Wth c. 2-3m). A crannog (RO044-094----) lies c. 110m to the SE.
See attached image: RO044-131_01 Google Earth aerial image (16-3-2011)
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 2February 2023
Nearby in the register
- Crannogunder 1 mi
- Crannogunder 1 mi
- Barrow - mound barrowunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.