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
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.92719, -8.10382
- SMR number
- RO011-049----
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 enclosure (diam. c. 30m) on the 1837 and 1914 eds. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated on the E-facing slope of a drumlin. D-shaped grass-covered area (dims c. 31m N-S; c. 15m E-W) defined by a scarp (H 0.2m generally to 0.7m at E) N-E-S which merges into the slope elsewhere. Rath (RO011-048----) is c. 120m to the WSW.
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.