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
- 53.97531, -8.21315
- SMR number
- RO006-102001-
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 N-facing slope of a low hill. Subcircular grass-covered area (dims 26m E-W; 23m N-S) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 4-5.5m; int. H 0.5m at E to 1.5m at S; ext. H 0.7m at S to 1.5m at E) with traces of a fosse (Wth of base 3.2-4m; D 0.2-0.6m) E-S-NW, and a scarp (H 1.1-1.3m) elsewhere. There is no visible entrance, but a house site (RO006-102002-) (dims 5m E-W; c. 3.5m N-S) defined by a scarp (H 0.2-0.7m) is at the centre. Rath (RO006-098----) is c. 120m to the NW, and rath (RO006-099----) is c. 160m to the WSW.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 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.