What is recorded here
Fairy fort / stone ringfort in Carrownalassan is a fairy fort or stone ringfort in Carrownalassan, County Roscommon, Ireland. It occupies a gentle south-facing slope with outcropping rock, forming a subcircular grass-covered area twenty-six point seven metres north-south and twenty-three metres east-west. A grass-covered stone spread two to two point three metres wide and ten to thirty centimetres high marks the SSW-N-SE boundary, with intermittently visible facing-stones at the north reaching one point two metres in original width. No identifiable original entrance remains, and Rath RO028-215 stands approximately one hundred and fifty metres to the north-northeast.
On a gentle S-facing slope with outcropping rock. Subcircular grass-covered area (int. dims 26.7m N-S; 23m E-W) defined by a grass-covered stone spread (Wth 2-2.3m; H 0.1-0.3m) SSW-N-SE with intermittently visible facing-stones (at N: original Wth 1.2m). There is no identifiable original entrance. Rath (RO028-215----) is c. 150m to the NNE.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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