Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ishlaun, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ishlaun
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.89160, -8.62231
- SMR number
- RO008C029----
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 NE-facing slope at the E end of a NW-SE ridge. Circular grass-covered area (diam. c. 42m N-S; c. 40m E-W) defined by a poached earthen bank (Wth 2.75m; int. H 0.6m; ext. H 1.8m) NW-E and a scarp (H 0.7m) elsewhere, with traces of a fosse (Wth of top 9.6m; Wth of base 2.4m; int. D 0.6m; ext. D 0.1m) SW-WSW. There is no visible entrance, and the interior is overlain by a WNW-ESE field wall S of the centre.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.