Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Woodfield, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Woodfield
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.02417, -8.20334
- SMR number
- RO003-031----
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 top of a drumlin. Circular overgrown area (diam. c. 30m), which remains unplanted in a coniferous forest, defined by an earthen bank (Wth 3.5-5m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 1.3m), which is overlain by a drystone wall W-N. There is an outer fosse (Wth of top 4.2-5m; D 0.2-0.6m) N-E, but no entrance is identified.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Structure - peatlandunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.