Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Cornalee, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cornalee
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.47643, -8.16774
- SMR number
- RO047-098----
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
Marked only on the 1915 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated on a rise in an undulating landscape. Subcircular grass-covered area (dims 27.4m ENE-SSW; 24.3m NNW-SSE) defined by earthen bank (Wth 4.2-4.5m; int. H 0.5-0.8m; ext. H 1.1-1.5m) incorporated into a field bank SE-S-NW, with a fragment of a fosse (Wth of top 6m; Wth of base 3m; D 0.2m) at SW. It is defined by a scarp (H 0.3m) NW-N-SE with a spoil mound (diam. 6m; H 0.5m) NE of the centre. There is no visible entrance.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Burialunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.