Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Dacklin, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dacklin
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.89455, -8.15021
- SMR number
- RO011-093----
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 top of and on the SW-facing slope of a small drumlin overlooking Corbally Lough (dims c. 750m NE-SW; c. 400m NW-SE), c. 180m to the W. Oval grass-covered area (dims 68m NE-SW; 55.5m NW-SE) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 5m; int. H 0.7m; ext. H 1m) at ENE and a scarp (H 0.35m at NE to 1.6m at S) elsewhere, with an outer fosse (Wth of base 2.2-2.4m; D 0.2-0.5m) SW-ENE. There is no visible entrance, and the perimeter is circumscribed by a curving field bank W-NW and by a NW-SE field bank at NE.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Barrow - mound barrowunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.