Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Carrowkeel (athlone North By., Lackan Ed), County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrowkeel (athlone North By., Lackan Ed)
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.52797, -8.14090
- SMR number
- RO045-074----
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 area in an undulating landscape. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 35.4m E-W; 33.2m N-S) defined by an overgrown but poached earthen bank (Wth 3.9-4m; int. H 0.5-0.7m; ext. H 1.1m) with some external facing-stones, and an outer fosse (at S: Wth of top 5.1m; Wth of base 2m; D 0.3m) ENE-S-NNW. The entrance at SE is now blocked, but the causeway (Wth 2.2m) is visible. Rath (RO045-073----) is c. 200m to the N.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.