Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Alderford, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Alderford
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.07520, -8.20554
- SMR number
- RO001-007----
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 low NW-SE ridge. Circular grass-covered but poached platform (diam. 32.8m E-W; 32.5m N-S; H 0.4-0.55m) separated by a fosse (Wth of top 3.3-4.4m; D 0.1-0.4m) from an outer bank (Wth 3.8-5.2m; H 0.2-0.6m). There is no visible entrance, but there are traces of a second outer fosse in a band of rushes (Wth 2.5-3m) N-NE and SE-SSW.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Sweathouseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.