Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Tullaghanmore Or Edmondstown Demesne, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Tullaghanmore Or Edmondstown Demesne
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Lissagarrymogh
- Latest-edition OS map
- Lissagarrymogh
- Coordinates
- 53.91983, -8.54187
- SMR number
- RO008-010----
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
On a gentle E facing slope. Subcircular grass-covered area (dims 36.2m N-S; 32.1m E-W) defined by an overgrown flat-topped but poached earthen bank (Wth of base 4.4-5.7m; Wth of top 0.9m; int. H 0.6-1m; ext. H 0.6-1.4m) which is best preserved (Wth of base 6-8.6m; Wth of top 1.8-3.2m; int. H 1m; ext. H 2-2.1m) W-N, and an outer fosse (Wth of top 7-7.6m; Wth of base 3-4.8m; D 0.1-0.3m but 1.2m at W) SSE-WNW. There is no identifiable entrance.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.