Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ratra, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ratra
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.89930, -8.48640
- SMR number
- RO008-050----
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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 a level, low-lying landscape. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 31.6m N-S; 30.6m E-W) defined by a an earthen bank (Wth 3.6-3.9m; int. H 0.4-0.6m; ext. H 0.6m at E to 1.2m at N) separated by a fosse (Wth of base 1.3m at E to 3m at S; D 0.4-0.6m) from an outer bank (at S: Wth 2.7m; H 0.3m), which is incorporated into a N-S field bank W-WNW and removed WNW-N. There is an entrance (Wth 1.4m) in the inner bank and a causeway (Wth 3m) at E, but the outer bank is eroded here.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Crannogunder 1 mi
- Crannogunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.