Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Finnor, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Finnor
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.90623, -8.15904
- SMR number
- RO011-092001-
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 a terrace overlooking the S bank of the W-E Killukin River, c. 30m to the N. Oval grass-covered area (dims 40.5m N-S; 33m E-W) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 3.64m at E to 5.65m at S; int. H 0.4m at E to 1.1m at S; ext. H 1.1m at E to 1.45m at S) NNE-E-SSW and a scarp (H 0.8-0.9m) elsewhere, with an outer fosse (Wth of base 1.5-1.8m; D 0.05-0.4m) SW-N-SE. The stone-revetted entrance (Wth 2.75m) is at SE. Cashel (RO011-091----) is c. 120m to the SW.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.