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
- 53.89832, -8.13514
- SMR number
- RO011-096----
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 W-facing slope of a NE-SW drumlin ridge. Circular overgrown area (diam. 28m) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 4m; int. H 0.2-0.45m; ext. H 1-1.15m) NW-NE and S-W, and a scarp (H 0.7-0.9m) elsewhere separated by a fosse (Wth of base 3.1m; D 0.4m at E) from an outer earthen bank (Wth 4-5.2m; int. H 0.35-0.4m; ext. H 0.6m) S-W-N and at SE. There is no visible entrance. Rath (RO011-097001-) is c. 150m to the S.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - mound barrowunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.