Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Pigeonstown, County Offaly, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Pigeonstown
- County
- Offaly
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.10561, -7.67938
- SMR number
- OF036-033----
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
Located on the N facing slope of high ground in mountainous area. Roughly circular area enclosed by two earth and stone banks with intervening fosse (D 0.5m; Wth 5.4m) and external fosse both of which are visible at S only. The inner bank is poorly preserved and in places is degraded to a scarp. Outer bank (Wth 1.8m; ext. H 1.2m) survives at S only. The defences of the site have been badly disturbed at the N and W by ploughing activity and to the E by a deep gorge running in a N-S direction.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Offaly' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload: 23 May 2011
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Deer parkunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.