Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
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
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.98302, -8.24025
- SMR number
- RO006-045----
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
On a gentle E-facing slope. Circular overgrown area in a deciduous wood (diam. 33m N-S) defined by a flat-topped earthen bank (Wth 4.9-6m; int. H 0.2m at N to 0.8m at W; ext. H 0.8m at W to 1.3m at S), separated by a flat-bottomed fosse (Wth of top 4.5-5m; D 0.1-0.3m) NW-E from a raised berm (Wth 8.5-9.5m) defined by a scarp (H 0.3-0.4m) that is probably a leveled bank NW-E. There is no visible entrance. Rath (RO006-044----) is c. 55m to the W.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.