Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Errironagh, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Errironagh
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.98795, -8.19892
- SMR number
- RO006-055----
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
At the top of an E-facing rise in a deciduous wood. Circular area (diam. 36.5m E-W; 35m N-S) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 3.7-4m; int. H 0.25m; ext. H 0.9-1.1m) S-NNW and a scarp (H 0.7m) elsewhere, with an outer fosse (Wth of top 3.3m; D 0.2m) SW-NW. There is no identifiable original entrance. An arc (int. diam. c. 20m) of a stone spread (Wth 3.5-4m; H 0.05-0.15m) can be traced inside the bank W-N-E.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Crannogunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.