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Ringfort - rath

Ardglass, County Roscommon, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Ardglass, County Roscommon, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Ardglass
County
Roscommon
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Embanked enclosure
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
53.93953, -8.17632
SMR number
RO010-024001-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

On a low rise in a low-lying landscape with a W-E stream c. 90m to the S. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 30m N-S; 30m E-W) defined by a earthen bank (Wth 4m at W to 5.4m at N; int. H 0.45m at N to 0.8m at E; ext. H 0.8m at W to 2.1m at N) with some scrub which is incorporated into a field bank NW-N, and a fosse (Wth of top 5.6m; Wth of base 4m; D 0.5m) NE-SE which is recut as a field drain SSE-NW. A grass-covered depression (RO010-024002-) running S from the perimeter at NNW may be a collapsed souterrain, although it might also be a silted drain associated with NNW-SSE field banks attached externally to the perimeter at NNW and SSE.

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 24 August 2010

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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