Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Drumlion, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Drumlion
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.92289, -8.14393
- SMR number
- RO011-034----
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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. D-shaped grass-covered area (dims 31.5m E-W; c. 20m N-S) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 4.5-4.7m; int. H 0.2-0.3m; ext. H 0.7m) NE-ESE and a scarp (H 0.2m to 0.9m at NW) WNW-N, but the perimeter cannot be seen elsewhere. A fosse is visible as a band of rushes (Wth 2m) at NW and NE-E, and the entrance (Wth 3.6m) is at ENE.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Boundary moundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.