Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Creggan ((costello By.), County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Creggan ((costello By.)
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.92729, -8.52327
- SMR number
- RO008-014----
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
Marked as a circular feature (ext. diam. c. 45m) only on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map (MA 64), and situated on a gentle SW-facing slope. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 28m N-S; 26m E-W) defined by a gapped earthen bank (Wth 3.2-4.1m; int. H 0.3-0.6m; ext H 0.4-0.7m). There is no visible fosse or recognisable entrance. The monument is overlain by an overgrown NW-SE field bank towards the perimeter at NW.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Cistunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Penal Mass stationunder 1 mi
- Gatewayunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.