Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Tumna, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Tumna
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.95343, -8.12223
- SMR number
- RO007-088----
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
Depicted as a circular embanked enclosure on the 1837 (ext. diam. c. 30m) ed. and as a D-shaped feature (dims c. 25m NE-SW; c. 25m NW-SE) slightly truncated by a NE-SW road at NW and a NW-SE field boundary at NE on the 1914 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. it is situated on top of a low rise. This is a D-shaped grass-covered area (dim. c. 24m NW-SE; c. 22m NE-SW) defined by a low scarp (H 0.3m-1m) E-S-W in reclaimed pasture but the perimeter at N is not well-defined.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of revised upload: 27 August 2018
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.