Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Errironagh, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Errironagh
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.99053, -8.19451
- SMR number
- RO006-057----
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 the NW-facing slope of a hill, c. 80m N of Derreen Lough. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 35.5m NW-SE; 32.5m NE-SW) defined by a flat-topped earthen bank and hedge (Wth 2.4-4.7m; int. H 0.2-0.75m; ext. H 0.55-1.1m), which is reduced to a scarp (H 1.25m) NW-NE. There is a fosse (Wth of top 4.2-4.7m; D 0.1-0.2m) SW-W-NW, continued by a berm (Wth 4m) NW-N, but there is no identifiable original entrance.
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
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.