Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Drumerr, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Drumerr
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.92149, -8.15805
- SMR number
- RO011-031----
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 top of a drumlin. Oval grass-covered area which remains unplanted in a coniferous forest (dims 35m N-S; 28.5m E-W) defined by a gapped and overgrown earthen bank (Wth 3.6-3.9m; int. H 0.3-0.6m; ext. H 0.85m at W to 1.45m at N) N-E-W and a scarp (H 0.4m) elsewhere, with an outer fosse (Wth of base 2-3m; D 0.25-0.4m) SW-N-SE and an outer earthen bank (Wth 3.4; int. H 1-1.1m; ext. H 0.25m) SW-NW. There is no identifiable original entrance.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Boundary moundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.