Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Gortnasythe, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gortnasythe
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.47562, -8.07744
- SMR number
- RO048-020----
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 25-inch ed. of the OS map as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 40m), and situated on the outer edge of a shelf on the W-facing slope of Carrowkeeny Hill. This is a subrectangular grass and scrub-covered area (dims 43m N-S; 34m E-W) with rounded corners defined by the base of a well-constructed faced stone wall, best preserved at N (Wth 1.6-1.75m) but reduced to a stone spread or obscured by field stones elsewhere. There is an entrance at N. Archaeological testing (03E1655) in the vicinity failed to produce any related material (Fitzpatrick 2006a).
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
References
Fitzpatrick, M. 2006a Gortnasythe: no archaeological significance. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2003: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 423, No. 1577. Bray. Wordwell.
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