Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Carrowkeel (athlone North By. Turrock Ed), County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrowkeel (athlone North By. Turrock Ed)
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.47685, -8.21311
- SMR number
- RO047-012001-
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 S-facing slope. Circular, slightly domed grass and scrub-covered area (diam. 39.6m WNW-ESE; 38.8m NNE-SSW) defined by a scrub-covered earthen bank (Wth 5.5m at ESE to 9.5m at WNW; int. H 0.65m; ext. H 1.45-1.55m) and a silted flat-bottomed outer fosse (at ESE: Wth of top 5.6m; Wth of base 2.8-3m; D 0.45m). The entrance (Wth 3.7m) and causeway (Wth 2.7m) are at SSE. A WNW-ESE field wall clips the outer edge of the fosse at SSW, and a field bank and hedge circumscribe the perimeter SW-NNE. Rath (RO047-013----) is c. 100m to the NNE and rath (RO047-011001-) is c. 200m to the S.
See the attached view taken from the W.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Cairn - clearance cairnunder 1 mi
- Cairn - clearance cairnunder 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.