Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Gortanure, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gortanure
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.94237, -8.66520
- SMR number
- RO008C003----
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 knoll on a N-facing slope. Oval grass-covered area (dims 26m NE-SW; 19.5m NW-SE) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 3.5-4.2m; int. H 0.2-0.4m; ext. H 1.3-1.4m), which is removed SE-SW. There is no visible fosse, but the entrance (Wth 2m) is at ENE. The interior is bisected by the remnants of a NW-SE field wall.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.