Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Derrylow, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Derrylow
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.92591, -8.17937
- SMR number
- RO010-047----
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 the crest of the NE-facing slope of a small drumlin. D-shaped grass-covered area (dims 29.5m E-W; 25.5m N-S) defined by an earthen bark (Wth 3.6-4.3m; int. H 0.4-0.7m; ext. H 1.15-1.35m) which is reduced to a scarp (H 0.6m) at NE where the entrance (Wth c. 2.5m) is, and an outer fosse (Wth of top 5.5m; Wth of base 4m; D 0.5m) SW-NW, where the straight W side (L c. 20m) is.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 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.