Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Garrynphort (athlone North By.), County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Garrynphort (athlone North By.)
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.48792, -8.18972
- SMR number
- RO047-019004-
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 gently undulating landscape with limestone outcrop. Subcircular slightly domed and scrub-covered area (int. dims 51m N-S; 43m E-W) defined by a stone spread (Wth 4-7m; H 0.3-0.8m) with facing-stones, best preserved at SSW where up to 3 courses survive (original Wth 2.2-2.45m). The entrance at ESE has 3 large stones on the N side of the passage, but the S side does not survive. A house-site (RO047-019005-) (int. dims 9.3m NNE-SSW; 5.2m) defined by grass-covered stone spreads (Wth 1-2m) with doorways on the long walls and an internal division is on a NE-SW ridge in the interior. The interior is overlain by a relict NE-SW field wall associated with the field system (RO047-019001-) and there are clearance cairns in the interior. Rath (RO044-087001-) is c. 200m to the NW.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.