Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Rockingham Demesne (boyle By., Rockingham.ed), County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rockingham Demesne (boyle By., Rockingham.ed)
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.98832, -8.24816
- SMR number
- RO006-040----
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
Marked only on the 1914 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated in mixed woodland on a N-facing slope c. 30m from the S shore of Lough Key opposite Drummans Island. Oval area (int. dims 22m E-W; 16.5m N-S) defined by a slight moss-covered stone spread (Wth 2.6-3.8m; H c. 0.2m) with some external facing stones visible, especially E-S. There is an entrance (Wth 2.3m), probably not original, at W.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Slipwayunder 1 mi
- Stone sculptureunder 1 mi
- Religious house - Premonstratensian canonsunder 1 mi
- Monumental structureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.