Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Promontory fort - inland
Churchacres, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Churchacres
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.05894, -8.15816
- SMR number
- RO004-001----
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 peninsula jutting SW from the N shore of Lough Meelagh (dims. c. 2 km E-W; c. 600m-1 km N-S). Oval area (dims. 50m ENE-WSW; 31m NNW-SSE) in a mature deciduous wood protected by an earthen bank (Wth 3.5m; int. H 0.3-0.4m; ext. H c. 1m) and outer fosse (Wth of top 6.5m; D 0.2-0.4m) across the isthmus (L 21m) at E. There is no visible entrance or any internal features. St Lassar's Well (RO004-002002-) is c. 140m to the ESE.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Memorial stoneunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy tree/bushunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.