Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Scregg (boyle By.), County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Scregg (boyle By.)
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.92843, -8.13015
- SMR number
- RO011-035----
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 a terrace overlooking lower ground to the N and E. Subcircular grass-covered area (int. dims 28.5m N-S; 25m E-W) defined by a grass-covered stone spread (Wth 2.3m at N to 4m at E; int. H 0.4-0.6m; ext. H 0.2m generally to 0.8m at E). There is no visible entrance but there is an outer berm (Wth 1.5-3m) defined by the natural slope (H up to 3m) N-SE and by a scarp (H 0.6m) elsewhere. There is a shallow quarry (D 0.3m) inside the perimeter E-S-W.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Mass-rockunder 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.