Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Carrick (Athlone South By.), County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrick (Athlone South By.)
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.48332, -8.10798
- SMR number
- RO048-183----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
On an undulating landscape. D-shaped grass-covered area (dims c. 20m N-S; c. 15m E-W) defined by a scarp (H 0.6m) SW-N, but the perimeter is incorporated into a NW-SE field wall N-E. There is no visible fosse or identifiable original entrance. The rath (RO048-011----) is c. 200m to the NNW.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Sweathouseunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.