Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Carrownamaddy (athlone South By.),knockanyconor, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrownamaddy (athlone South By.),knockanyconor
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.54160, -8.02940
- SMR number
- RO045-061----
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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 only on the 1915 ed. of the OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 55m) truncated slightly by a NW-SE field bank and townland boundary with Knockanyconor at SW, and visible as a D-shaped vegetation mark (int. diam. c. 30m NW-SE) defined by three fosses (max. ext. diam. c. 70m NW-SE) and truncated at SW by a NW-SE field bank on aerial photographs (GSIAP: M222-3). Situated on the N-facing slope of a NE-SW ridge, it is not visible at ground level in reclaimed pasture.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
References
GSIAP - Geological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1973). Geological Survey. Beggars Bush, Haddington Road, Dublin 4.
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.