Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Mullaghmore, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Mullaghmore
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.93669, -8.11522
- SMR number
- RO011-021----
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
Towards the top of the N-facing slope of a broad N-S drumlin. Subcircular overgrown area (dims 25m E-W; 22m N-S) defined by an earthen bank (at W: Wth 5m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 1.6m; at S: Wth 6.7m; int. H 1.05m; ext. H 1.2m) E-S-W and a scarp (H 1.3m generally to 2m at NE) elsewhere, with an outer fosse (Wth of base 2.9m; D 0.2-0.3m) SW-WNW. There is an entrance (Wth 1.2m) and causeway (Wth 1.4m) at SW, and the perimeter is circumscribed by a field bank and drain ESE-SSW and by a field bank NE-ESE.
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.