What is recorded here

Indicated is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Carrowmore (ballintober North By.), County Roscommon, Ireland. The circular grass-covered area spans 43m north-south at the crest of a south-facing drumlin slope. An earthen bank forms the main boundary, while an outer fosse widened into a pond at the southwest. A separate entrance cuts through the southeast, and two other raths stand within 120m to the west and east-northeast.

At the crest of the S-facing slope of a drumlin. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 43m N-S) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 4.5m; int. H 0.15-0.5m; ext. H 0.6-1m) NW-N and SSE-SSW which is incorporated into a field bank WSW-NW and reduced to a scarp (H 0.3m-1m) elsewhere. There is an outer fosse (Wth of top 4.3m; D 0.1-0.4m) SSW-NW which has been expanded into a pond at SW. The entrance (Wth 4.5m) is at SE. Rath (RO011-132----) is c. 80m to the W and rath (RO011-134----) is c. 120m to the ENE. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

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