Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Lodge, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lodge
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.91616, -8.12833
- SMR number
- RO011-069----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
On a shelf of a gentle SE-facing slope. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 40.7m N-S; 40m E-W) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 3.9-4m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 0.65-0.7m) SE-WSW and a scarp (H 0.4m at E to 0.8m at N) elsewhere with an outer fosse (Wth of base 1.8-2m; D 0.2m) E-WSW, which is visible as a band of rushes (Wth 2.6m) elsewhere. There is an entrance (Wth 3.3m) at SSE. The possible ringfort (RO011-067----) is c. 120m to the NW, rath (RO011-068----) is c. 170m to the SSW, and rath (RO011-070----) is c. 220m to the E.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.