Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Deerpark (boyle By., Danesfort Ed),lodge, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Deerpark (boyle By., Danesfort Ed),lodge
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.92177, -8.11969
- SMR number
- RO011-042----
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
Marked as a circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 50m) bisected by a NNE-SSW road on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated on the SW-facing slope of a NE-SW ridge. D-shaped grass-covered area (dims. 27m NE-SW; 11m NW-SE) defined by a scarp (H 0.2-1m) NE-E-SW which is truncated by a NE-SW road at NW. Rath (RO011-041----) is c. 20m to the SW and rath (RO011-043----) is c. 135m to the S.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
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- Field systemunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.