Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Danesfort, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Danesfort
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Danesfort
- Coordinates
- 53.92663, -8.10644
- SMR number
- RO011-048----
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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
Towards the top of the W-facing slope of a drumlin. Subcircular grass-covered area (dims 56m NW-SE; 50m NE-SW) defined by a short length of earthen bank (Wth 5m; int. H 0.4-0.6m; ext. H 1.1m) at WSW and an overgrown scarp (H 0.6m at S to 1.5m at N) elsewhere. There is an outer fosse (Wth of base 4-4.3m) and overgrown outer earthen bank (at W: Wth 4.3m; int. H 0.1m; ext. H 1.3m; at N: 6.4m; int. H 0.8m; ext. H 2m) SW-N-NE, while the fosse is continued by a band of wet ground (Wth 3-5m) E-SE. There is no visible entrance. Rath (RO011-049----) is c. 120m to the ENE.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Inscribed stoneunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.