Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Magheraboy, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Magheraboy
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.90278, -8.55516
- SMR number
- RO008-039----
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
Visible as a circular feature (diam. c. 30m) on aerial photographs (ACAP: V221/133-4), and situated on a low-lying level landscape. It survives as a circular grass and rush-covered area (diam. c. 30m) but its defining features are not discernible on the ground in dense rushes.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of amended upload: 27 April 2018
Nearby in the register
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.