Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Cordrehid, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cordrehid
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.93844, -8.08687
- SMR number
- RO011-028----
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 bottom of the S-facing slope of a low drumlin in a loop of the River Shannon which is c. 230-400m distant W-N-SE. Subcircular grass-covered area (dims 47m N-S; 40m E-W) defined by a scarp (H 0.25m at S to 0.55m at N), with an outer fosse (Wth of base 4-4.5m; D 0.2-0.5m) NW-N. There is no visible entrance.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- House - 17th centuryunder 1 mi
- Fortificationunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.