Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Rusheen (Boyle By.), County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rusheen (Boyle By.)
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.95095, -8.21701
- SMR number
- RO006-152----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
Marked only on the 1914 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated in a low-lying position, just N of a SW-NE stream. D-shaped grass-covered area (dims 31m NW-SE; 24m NE-SW) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 4-5m; int. H 0.3-0.5m; ext. H 1m) NW-E, which is reduced to a scarp (H 0.2-1m) SW-NW and truncated by the stream at SE. There is no visible fosse or entrance.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Mass-rockunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.