Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Erris, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Erris
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.98047, -8.27499
- SMR number
- RO006-031----
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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 W end of a low rise and in a coniferous forest c. 130m from the SW shore of a bay at the SW angle of Lough Key. D-shaped platform (dims 28.5m NE-SW; c. 15m NW-SE) defined by a scarp (H 1-1.2m) SW-NE and by a N-S field bank at E and an E-W field bank at S. There is no visible bank, fosse or identifiable original entrance, and the SE part of the site cannot be traced. Rath (RO006-032----) is immediately to the SE.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Road - unclassified togherunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.