Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Derrygirraun, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Derrygirraun
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.00765, -8.13200
- SMR number
- RO004-046----
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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 enclosure (diam. c. 25-30m) on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and as a fragment of an enclosure on the 1914 ed. Situated on a shelf towards the bottom of the SE-facing slope of a drumlin. D-shaped grass and scrub-covered area (dims 15m N-S; 11.5m E-W) which remains unplanted in a coniferous forest defined by a scarp (H 0.2-0.4m) S-W-N but the perimeter is cut by a quarry scarp (H 2m) at E. Cashel (RO004-047----) is c. 190m to the NNE.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Crannogunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.