Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Knockadoobrusna, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knockadoobrusna
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.95259, -8.29745
- SMR number
- RO006-118004-
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
Towards the top of the SW-facing slope of the NE summit of a NE-SW ridge. Marked as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 50m) only on the 1914 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and visible on aerial photographs as a large enclosure defined by a wide fosse with traces of an internal and external bank (CUCAP: AHN 3-6) which appears to have had an entrance at SE. It has been removed since the 1970s and is visible today as a circular grass-covered area (diam. c. 40m) defined by a slight scarp (H 0.1-0.5m). Archaeological testing (99E0233; 99E0366) associated with a NNW-SSE road c. 50m to the W failed to produce any related archaeological material (Moore 2000; Swan 2000b), and neither did testing (06E0297) c. 100m to the WNW (Henry 2009a). Ring-barrow (RO006-118005-) is c. 30m to the E.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
References
Moore, D. 2000 Knockadoobrusna: environs of archaeological complex. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 1999: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 270, No. 770. Bray. Wordwell.
Henry, M. 2009a Knockadoonbrusna: no archaeological significance. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2006: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 461, No. 1737. Dublin. Wordwell.
Swan, R. 2000b Knockadoobrusna: environs of archaeological complex. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 1999: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 270, No. 771. Bray. Wordwell.
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - mound barrowunder 1 mi
- Hengeunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.