Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Bunreagh, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Bunreagh
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.92073, -8.19081
- SMR number
- RO010-045----
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 slight rise in a low-lying landscape with a S-N stream or drain c. 80m to the E. Oval grass-covered area (dims 38m E-W; 30m N-S) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 4.7m at N to 6.2m at E; int. H 0.55m; ext. H 1.55m) W-N-ESE, which is reduced to a scarp (H 1.1m) elsewhere, and a complete outer fosse (Wth 2.5-3.4m; D 0.45-0.7m) which is crossed by a causeway (Wth 4m) at WNW. The monument is cut by an E-W drain and hedge towards the perimeter at S.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.