Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ardglass, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ardglass
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.93656, -8.18290
- SMR number
- RO010-023----
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
Visible as a circular feature on aerial photograph (GSIAP: M 669-8), and situated on the crest of the E-facing slope of a NE-SW drumlin ridge. Subcircular grass-covered area (dims 37m E-W; 31m N-S) defined by a low scarp (H 0.3-0.6m). Rath (RO010-022----) is c. 130m to the N.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
References
GSIAP - Geological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1973). Geological Survey. Beggars Bush, Haddington Road, Dublin 4.
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Penal Mass stationunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.