Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Earthwork
Carrownderry, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrownderry
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.49979, -8.04718
- SMR number
- RO045-191----
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Shown on 5 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
Visible as a small circular feature defined by an earthen bank (diam. c. 10m) on aerial photographs (GSIAP: M 469-8), and situated on an undulating low-lying landscape at the NW corner of a field. It is not visible at ground level in pasture. It may have been a ring-barrow or spoil.
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 - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.