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
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.98199, -8.22280
- SMR number
- RO006-048002-
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
Visible on aerial photograph (ASIAP: 253, 21), and situated just off the crest of the SE-facing slope of Longford Hill. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 29.7m N-S) defined by a slight scarp (H 0.2m at N to 0.7m at S) N-E-SW that merges into the slope elsewhere. There are slight traces of a bank (Wth 4m; int. H 0.1m) on the perimeter at N. Rath (RO004-048001-) is c. 40m to the NW.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
References
ASIAP - Archaeological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1996 - c. 2010).
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Slipwayunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.