Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Carrowduff And Garbally, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrowduff And Garbally
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.39195, -8.11651
- SMR number
- RO051-058001-
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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 as a circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 45m) on the 1837 and 1915 eds of the OS 6-inch map, and situated at the SE edge of a hillock in an undulating landscape with field walls. It is not visible at ground level in improved pasture but it was probably a rath. The parch mark of what might be a bank with an outer fosse feature around a D-shaped area (dims c. 30m N-S; c. 20m E-W) can be seen on Bing images (c. 2013) and digitalglobe images (c. 2015). There are local reports of an underground structure, possibly a souterrain (RO051-058002-), in the interior (Gannon 1972).
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 28 June 2018
References
Gannon, A. 1972 Archaeological survey of Roscommon. Unpublished typed index cards prepared for Roscommon County Council.
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.