Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Gortanure, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gortanure
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.93997, -8.67032
- SMR number
- RO008C002----
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
On a gentle N-facing slope. Subcircular scrub-covered area (int. dims 32m E-W; 27m N-S) defined by a flat-topped but overgrown earthen bank (Wth 2.3-4m; int. H 0.8-1.3m; ext. H 1.15-2.8m) with internal facing stones separated by a fosse (Wth of base 2.1-3m; D 0.4-0.9m) from an overgrown outer bank (Wth 1.2-2m; H 0.4-1m). The entrance (Wth 2.2m) and causeway (Wth 3m) are at ENE.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.