Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Carrowkeeny, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrowkeeny
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.47190, -8.06183
- SMR number
- RO048-085----
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
Visible as a faint but distinct circular vegetation parch mark (diam. c. 30m) on aerial photographs (GSIAP: M 593-2), and situated on a gentle E-facing slope. It is not visible at ground level in pasture.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
References
GSIAP - Geological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1973). Geological Survey. Beggars Bush, Haddington Road, Dublin 4.
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.