Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Foxhill, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Foxhill
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.97777, -8.14762
- SMR number
- RO007-030----
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 a drumlin. Circular overgrown area (diam. 32m N-S) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 4m; int. H 0.2-0.4m; ext. H 0.4m generally to 1.2m at N) W-N-E, which is incorporated into a field bank at E but reduced to a scarp (H 0.4-1.1m) SE-SW, with an outer fosse (Wth of top 3.8-5.15m; D 0.1m generally to 1.35m at N) SE-W-N and an outer bank (Wth 2-5m; H 0.2-0.8m) at SE and SW-NW. There is no visible entrance. Rath (RO007-029----) is c. 190m to the NNE.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 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.