Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Aghrafinigan, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Aghrafinigan
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.01805, -8.22716
- SMR number
- RO003-043----
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 SW-facing slope. Subcircular grass-covered platform (dims 31m E-W; 26m N-S) defined by a scarp (H 0.7-0.8m N-E to 1.2m S-W). There is no visible bank, fosse or identifiable original entrance, but the perimeter is truncated by a NNE-SSW field drain at SE.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Inscribed stone (present location)under 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.