Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Knockadrehid, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knockadrehid
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.05401, -8.23443
- SMR number
- RO003-001----
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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 rocky shelf on the lower E-facing slope of a drumlin. D-shaped grass-covered area (dims. 22.5m NE-SW; 20m NW-SE) defined by an earthen bank with bushes (Wth 5m; H 0.3-0.8m) SW-W and by a scarp (H 0.6-1m) NE-SW, but the perimeter cannot be identified W-NE. There is no visible fosse or entrance. Mound barrow (RO003-083----) is c. 100m to the W.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - mound barrowunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.