What is recorded here

Ardcarn is a grass-covered bowl-barrow on a low ridge in County Roscommon, Ireland. Its flat top measures 2.5 metres across while its base spans 18.5 metres, rising nearly four metres above the ground. A faint ditch still marks its eastern edge, and a trivallate rath waits one hundred metres to the west. The mound has stood at the ridge summit since before written memory, holding the shapes of buried life beneath ordinary grass.

Located at the summit of a low NE-SW ridge. Circular, grass-covered earthen mound with a flat summit (diam. of base 18.5m E-W; diam. of top 2.5m E-W; H 3.9-4.2m) defined by traces of a fosse (Wth of base 5-6.5m; D 0.05-0.1m) at E, and possibly at W (max. ext. diam. c. 30m E-W). The trivallate rath (RO006-153001-) is c. 100m to the WSW, and earthwork site (RO006-156----) is c. 90m to the S. Archaeological testing (02E0167) c. 140m to the NW failed to produce any related material (Read 2004k). This is a National Monument in state ownership: No. 488 Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

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