Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Derraun, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Derraun
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.91249, -8.15570
- SMR number
- RO011-061----
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
On the gentle SW-facing slope of a low E-W drumlin ridge. Circular grass and scrub-covered area (diam. 25.5m N-S) defined by a gapped earthen bank (Wth 2.4m at W to 3.7m at NE; int. H 0.15m at W to 0.6m at NE; ext. H 0.8-1m) W-N-E which is incorporated in a field bank and hedge E-SW, and a scarp (H 1m) elsewhere. An outer fosse (Wth of base 2.2m; D 0.2m) at NE is represented by a band of wet ground (Wth 2m) W-NW. There is no visible entrance. Rath (RO011-062001-) is c. 90m to the ENE.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.