Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Derrymaquirk, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Derrymaquirk
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.95975, -8.37926
- SMR number
- RO005-030002-
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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
At the crest of a low E-W rise overlooking a SW-NE section of Boyle River, which is c. 350m to the N. D-shaped grass and rush-covered area (dims 27m N-S; 18m E-W) defined by a scarp (H 0.5-1.5m) SE-W-NW which is incorporated into a field bank NW-NE. There is no visible fosse or identifiable original entrance. The monument is truncated by the outer bank and outer fosse of rath (RO005-030001-) at E.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Barrow - mound barrowunder 1 mi
- Settlement platformunder 1 mi
- Settlement platformunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.