Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Cartron (athlone South By., Rockhill Ed), County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cartron (athlone South By., Rockhill Ed)
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.50235, -8.06593
- SMR number
- RO045-182----
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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 rise on a S-facing slope. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 30.3m NNE-SSW; 29.7m WNW-ESE) defined by an earthen bank with whitethorn bushes (at NNE: Wth 6.6m; int. H 0.6m; ext. H 1.6m) which is frequently reduced to a scarp (at SSW: H 1.3m), and slight traces of a fosse N-NE. The entrance (Wth 3.4m) is at SSW and field stones lie on the perimeter NE-E-SSW. Rath (RO045-183----) is c. 70m to the SE.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.