Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Roscarban, County Leitrim, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Roscarban
- County
- Leitrim
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.02618, -7.96592
- SMR number
- LE024-043----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 at the crest of the SE-facing slope of a drumlin overlooking the W part of Lough Scur, the shore of which is c. 250m distant NNW-E-S. This is a grass and rush-covered subcircular area (int. dims 34m N-S; 30.5m E-W) defined by a round-topped earthen bank (at NE: Wth of base 2.9m; int. H 0.25m; ext. H 0.95m) with some bushes and an external fosse (at NE: Wth of top 4.2m; D 0.15m). The original entrance is not identified, and the monument is circumscribed by a field wall NE-S.
The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Leitrim' compiled by Michael J. Moore (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2003). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload: 23 September 2008
Nearby in the register
- Crannogunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - wedge tombunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - portal tombunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.