Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Drishoge, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Drishoge
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.93986, -8.11203
- SMR number
- RO011-022----
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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 enclosure (diam. c. 35m) on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated on level low-lying ground. D-shaped overgrown platform (dims 21m E-W; 10m N-S; H 1.15m) separated by a fosse (Wth of top 3.8m; Wth of base 1.3m; D 1m) from an outer bank (Wth of base 5m; Wth of top 3.75m; ext. H 0.35m) W-N-E. The monument is truncated at S by an E-W railway line at S.
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.