Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ardglass, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ardglass
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enlcosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.93807, -8.18297
- SMR number
- RO010-022----
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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 shelf on the NE-facing slope of a NE-SW drumlin ridge. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 43m N-S; 43m E-W) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (Wth 3.15m at E to 4.4m at S (upslope); int. H 0.5-0.75m; ext. H 1-1.25m) NE-NW reduced to a scarp (H 0.6m) NW-NE, and a fosse (Wth of top 4.5-5.4m; Wth of base 3.3-4m; D 0.3-0.6m) ENE-ESE and SSE-WNW. The entrance is at SE, and a field bank and drain overlie the fosse NW-NE. Rath (RO010-023----) is c. 130m to the S.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Penal Mass stationunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.