Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Roos, County Longford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Roos
- County
- Longford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.75269, -7.60536
- SMR number
- LF010-097----
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
On a NE-facing slope in pasture. A raised circular area (diam. 49.8m) enclosed by a low bank of earth and stone (Wth 3.6m; H 0.2-0.9m). There is no trace of a fosse. A wide modern entrance at ENE may mark the location of the original one. From SSW-W-N the circuit and morphology of the bank have been altered where it has been incorporated into a field boundary. Much of the interior has recently been dug up.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.