Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Carrowkeeny, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrowkeeny
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.47532, -8.06455
- SMR number
- RO048-027001-
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 local prominance in an undulating landscape. Subcircular grass and scrub-covered area (dims 42.3m NW-SE; 38.7m NE-SW) defined by a stone spread (Wth c. 7m; H 0.5-0.9m) obscured by field stones and with some bushes. There is a record of a stone-lined entrance (Wth 2m) at N (Gannon 1972) but it cannot be detected now. A N-S fieldwall overlies the W part of the monument, and souterrain (RO048-027002-) is inside the perimeter at SW. The interior was used as a Childrens' Burial Ground (RO048-027003-).
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
References
Gannon, A. 1972 Archaeological survey of Roscommon. Unpublished typed index cards prepared for Roscommon County Council.
Nearby in the register
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 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.