Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Grange More, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Grange More
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enlcosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.92127, -8.34424
- SMR number
- RO009-023001-
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 slight rise in a low-lying landscape. Circular grass-covered but poached area (diam. 21m) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (Wth 3.5m; int. H 0.4-0.5m; ext. H 1m) NE-E and by an overgrown scarp (H 0.4-0.6m) elsewhere, with the remains of a fosse (Wth of base 4m at SW to 9m at N; D 0.3m) SW-W-NE and an outer bank (Wth c. 6.5m; H 0.5-0.8m) WNW-NE. There is no visible entrance.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.