Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Danesfort, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Danesfort
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.92959, -8.09786
- SMR number
- RO011-050----
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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 D-shaped enclosure (dims c. 40m NE-SW; c. 40m NW-SE) truncated by a NE-SW field bank at NW only on the 1914 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. Situated on a gentle NW-facing slope with the River Shannon, c. 200m to the E. Rectangular grass-covered area (dims 36.5m NE-SW; 35m NW-SE) defined by a field bank at NW and scarps (H 0.2-0.4m) elsewhere. Rath (RO011-051----) is c. 150m to the S.
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
- Inscribed stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.