Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Carrick (athlone South By.) (detached Portion), County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrick (athlone South By.) (detached Portion)
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.49284, -8.05336
- SMR number
- RO045-196----
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
At the crest of the NE-facing slope of a hill. Circular overgrown area (diam. c. 39m WNW-ESE) defined by an overgrown earth and stone bank (at ESE: Wth 5.8m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 0.8m) with intermittently visible facing-stones (at WSW: Wth of wall 2m). There is an entrance (Wth 2.3m) at ENE, but there is no visible fosse.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.