Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Dergraw, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dergraw
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.98761, -8.10547
- SMR number
- RO007-046001-
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 top of a drumlin. D-shaped overgrown area (dims 31m NW-SE; 26m NE-SW) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 3.5-4m; int. H 0.2-0.5m; ext. H 0.7-1m) at N and a scarp (H 0.5-0.65m) elsewhere, with an outer fosse (Wth of top 4-5m; D 0.2m generally to 0.65m at E) W-N-E. Rath (RO07-046002-) is attached to the SE, but separated from it by a NE-SW field bank and drain. It is unplanted in mixed woodland (Bing c. 2013).
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of revised upload: 27 May 2015
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.