Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Creeharmore, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Creeharmore
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Caltragh Fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Caltragh Fort (Site of)
- Coordinates
- 53.48801, -8.27181
- SMR number
- RO047-001001-
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
Towards the S end of a slight NW-SE ridge. Depicted as a large circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 70m) on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and described as 'Caltragh', meaning a burial ground, on the 1837 and 1915 eds. Circular grass-covered area with some bushes (diam. 62m WNW-ESE) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 4-6m; int. H 0.6-1m; ext. H 1.25-1.65m), surviving best NNE-SE and W-WNW but disturbed by a quarry at N and truncated by a NW-SE field bank at S. There is a slight outer fosse (Wth of top 4.4m; Wth of base 1m; D 0.35m) E-SE, and the entrance (Wth 2m) is at E. Two low radial banks from the perimeter at W and SW meet just SW of the centre, and two fragments of a rotary quern (RO047-001002-) are at the monument.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.