Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Derreenasalt, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Derreenasalt
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.05268, -8.21160
- SMR number
- RO003-004----
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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
Marked as a circular feature (diam. c. 30m) on the 1837 and 1914 eds. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated on the summit of a drumlin. Circular overgrown platform (diam. c. 25m; H 0.3-0.6m) defined by a fosse (at S: Wth of top 3m; Wth of base 2m; D 0.7m) and an outer bank (at S: Wth 1.5m; ext. H 0.3m). There is no visible entrance. It may be a ring-barrow.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Crannogunder 1 mi
- Crannogunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.