Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Carrowroe, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrowroe
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.25299, -8.46980
- SMR number
- SL014-225----
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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)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1904 · Sheet 4. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
In rolling pasture, bordered to the N by modern developments. A circular area (diam. 23.5m) is enclosed by an earth and stone bank (int. H at S 1.24m; int. H at N 1.1m; ext. H 1.24m; Wth 2.55m). There is revetting to the external face of the bank from the SE to the SW, consisting of a setting of 20 stones (L 0.64m; Wth 0.5m; T 0.5m) set into the base of the bank. There is a corresponding setting of five stones along the interior face. There is no trace of a fosse or of an entrance feature.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 21 April 2011
Nearby in the register
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- Hut siteunder 1 mi
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.