Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Woodbrook, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Woodbrook
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.94309, -8.15789
- SMR number
- RO011-004----
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
Marked as a circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 50m) on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated on a slight rise in a low-lying landscape. D-shaped grass-covered area (dims 31m WNW-ESE; c. 10m NNE-SSW) defined by a fosse (Wth of top 4.5m; Wth of base 3.5m; int. D 0.2-0.7m) and outer bank (Wth 5m; ext. H 0.3-0.4m) NW-E. There is no visible entrance and the site is truncated at S by a WNW-ESE railway line.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.