Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Carrowmoney, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrowmoney
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.54622, -8.15306
- SMR number
- RO045-004----
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
Marked on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map as an embanked enclosure cut by a NE-SW road towards the perimeter at NW. It is situated towards the top of a SE-facing slope. A fragment of grass-covered earthen bank (Wth 2.6m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 0.6m) and outer fosse (Wth of top 3.8m; Wth of base 1.6m; ext. D 0.3m) survives NW of the NE-SW road. South of the road a short section of an overgrown earthen bank (Wth 2.5m) survives ENE-ESE (diam. 33.2m WNW-ESE).
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.