Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Tonroe Or Feenagh, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Tonroe Or Feenagh
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.91282, -8.37194
- SMR number
- RO009-045----
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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 level landscape. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 25.5m N-S) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (Wth 6.25-7.5m; int. H 0.45-0.6m; ext. H 3-3.5m) with outer facing stones separated by an overgrown fosse (Wth of base 6.5-6.8m; D 1.6-2m) from an outer bank (Wth 4-5.5m; H 1.45-1.6m) SE-ENE. There is a second outer fosse (Wth of base 4-4.8m) N-ESE and S-WSW, with a third outer bank SW-NW (Wth 4.5m; ext. H 1.45-1.7m) and NNE-NE (Wth 5.85m) which can be traced as a berm NE-ESE and S-SW (max. ext. diam. c. 70m). There is an entrance through the inner (Wth 2.6m) and middle (Wth 3.5m) banks with a causeway across the inner fosse at E. Enclosure (RO009-044----) is c. 90m to the NNW.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.