Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Knockarush, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knockarush
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.94587, -8.27412
- SMR number
- RO010-005001-
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 low rise on a W-facing slope. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 47m N-S) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 2.75-3.75m; int. H 0.1-0.25m; ext. H 0.6-1m) with internal and external facing stones SE-W-ENE, which is reduced to a scarp (H 1-1.2m) elsewhere. There is no visible fosse or entrance, but a grass-covered cairn (RO010-005002-) (diam. 3m; H 0.4m), probably a clearance cairn, is at the centre.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Cairn - clearance cairnunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Road - road/trackwayunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.