Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Castletown, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Castletown
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.89666, -8.22475
- SMR number
- RO010-076----
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 low N-S ridge. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 40m N-S; 40m E-W) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (at W: Wth 3m; int. H 0.4-0.8m; ext. H 1.25-1.5m) SSW-NNW reduced to a scarp (H 0.8m at N to 1.9m at E) elsewhere, with a fosse (Wth 3m of base; D 0.4m) SSW-SW. There is no visible entrance. Leamgire castle (RO010-075----) is c. 130m to the SW.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.