Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Earthwork
Hawksford, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Hawksford
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.93768, -8.63977
- SMR number
- RO008C009----
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 only on the 1915 ed. of the OS 6-inch map as a circular feature (diam. c . 10m), and situated on the crest of a NW-SE ridge. This is a trapezoidal grass-covered earth and stone mound (dims 13.5m E-W; 5.5m N-S at W to 9.5m N-S at E; H 0.3m at E to 1.1m at W) with quarries on the perimeter. Rath (RO008C010001-) and souterrain (RO008C010002-) are c. 70m to the SE.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.