Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Charlestown, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Charlestown
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.93416, -8.02366
- SMR number
- RO011-053----
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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 only on the 1914 ed. of the OS 6-inch map as a small circular feature (diam. c. 20m). Situated at the W edge of a low shelf with a W-E section of River Shannon c. 100m to the N, it is now planted with mature coniferous trees within a forest. It is a circular area (diam. 27.2m E-W; 26.7m N-S) defined by a slight bank at N (Wth 3m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 0.7m) and S (Wth 4m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 0.7m), with traces of a fosse (Wth of base 1.7-2m) SE-SSW, and by a scarp (H 0.7-1m) elsewhere. The probable entrance (Wth of base 1.8m) is at SE.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of revised upload: 8 June 2015
Nearby in the register
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Crannogunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.