Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Legvoy Or Gardenstown, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Legvoy Or Gardenstown
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked encosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.92851, -8.14853
- SMR number
- RO011-033----
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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 the summit of a NE-SW drumlin ridge. Circular grass and scrub-covered area (diam. 53.5m N-S; 50m E-W) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (at W: Wth 4.5m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 0.8m; at E: Wth 6m; int. H 0.8m; ext. H 1.5m) N-E and SW-W which is reduced to a scarp (H 0.5m at NW to 1m at S) E-S and W-N, with an outer fosse (Wth of base 3.3m at N to 4.5m at W; D 0.55-0.6m) W-NE. There is no visible entrance, and the perimeter is circumscribed by field banks ESE-S-NW.
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.