Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Carrowcardin, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrowcardin
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.19726, -9.09984
- SMR number
- SL016-039----
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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
Situated on the W-facing slope of a low N-S ridge in pasture. Shown on the 1837 OS 6-inch map as a roughly oval enclosure, and on the 1913 edition as a hachured D-shaped area. Raised semi-circular area (diam. c. 25m N–S; 15m E–W to field fence) defined on the curving side at SSE–N by a scarp (H 1m), and on the straight side to E by a field fence on a NNW–SSE axis. To E of the field fence, the rath has been levelled and only ephemeral undulations are visible. At the outer foot of the scarp at S–NW is a modern roadway.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 19 January 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Slab-lined burialunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.