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
- 53.47794, -8.21197
- SMR number
- RO047-013----
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 gentle SE-facing slope. Circular grass-covered platform (diam. 30m NNW-SSE; 29m ENE-WSW) defined by a grass-covered earthen bank best preserved, although probalby renewed, NE-SSE (at ENE: Wth 4.3m; int. H 0.6m; ext. H 1.3m) and largely reduced to a scarp (at WSW: H 1.3m) elsewhere. There are slight traces of an outer fosse (Wth of base 1.3m) NNE-ENE and an entrance (Wth 2m) at NE. Rath (RO047-014001-) is c. 150m to the E and rath (RO047-012001-) is c. 100m to the SSW.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Cairn - clearance cairnunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Cairn - clearance cairnunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.