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
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.97489, -8.21607
- SMR number
- RO006-099----
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
Marked only on the 1914 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated on a NW-facing slope. Oval grass-covered area (dims 33m E-W; 21m N-S) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 4.5-6.5m; int. H 0.8-1m; ext. H 0.2-0.3m) E-SW and NW-NE (Wth 5.5m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 1.2-1.4m), where it has outer facing stones. The perimeter is reduced to a scarp (at W: H 0.8m) elsewhere. There is no visible fosse or entrance. Rath (RO006-100----) is c. 70m to the SW, while raths (RO006-098----) and (RO006-102001-) are c. 120m to the NE and c. 160m to the ENE respectively.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.