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Ringfort - rath

Rockingham Demesne (Boyle By., Rockingham.ED), County Roscommon, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Rockingham Demesne, County Roscommon, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Rockingham Demesne (Boyle By., Rockingham.ED)
County
Roscommon
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Embanked enclosure
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
53.98460, -8.24401
SMR number
RO006-041001-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

In mixed woodland at the E end of a low E-W ridge. Circular area (diam. 27.1m N-S; 26.9m E-W) defined by a flat-topped earthen bank (Wth 3.7-4.4m; int. H 0.1m at S to 0.7m at W; ext. H 1m at E to 1.7m W-N), which barely survives NNE-S, and an outer flat-bottomed fosse (Wth of top 3.6-4.9m; Wth of base 1.2-2m; D 0.2-0.8m). A berm (at W: Wth 4m) and outer bank (at W: Wth 2.4m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 0.8m) survive SW-N, and the berm can be traced ENE-SE (at E: Wth 2m) defined by a slight scarp (H 0.3m) or outer bank (at E: Wth 2.4m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 0.5m). The entrance through the inner bank (Wth 1.6m) and stone-lined causeway (Wth 3.1m) are at N, but there is a secondary entrance through the inner (Wth 0.9m) and outer (Wth 2m) banks at SW.
Attached to the S is a rectangular enclosure or annexe (RO006-041002-) (dims 25.6m ENE-WSW; 23m NNE-SSW at W) defined by a fosse (Wth of top 3m; Wth of base 1.4m; int. D 0.6m; ext. D 0.3m) at E (L 10-14m) and an earthen bank (Wth of base 3.4m; Wth of top 1.2m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 1.2m) and outer flat-bottomed fosse (Wth of top 4m; Wth of base 1m; D 0.4m) at W. The E end of the perimeter at S does not survive, but there is a stone-lined causeway (Wth 3.8m) towards its W end, and there is an entrnace (Wth 2.8m) and causeway (Wth 3.8m) towards the S end of the perimeter at W.
Raths (RO006-042----; RO006-044----) are c. 200m to the SW and SE respectively.

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 24 August 2010

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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