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
- 53.89666, -8.13489
- SMR number
- RO011-097001-
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
Towards the E end of a low E-W drumlin. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 28m N-S; 28m E-W) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 3.5-3.6m; int. H 0.35-0.5m; ext. H 0.7-1m) W-N-SE and a scarp (H 0.7-1.2m) elsewhere, with an outer fosse (Wth at base 2.5m; D 0.2m) at NW represented by a band of rushes (Wth 2.2-2.5m) N-SE and at SW. The entrance (Wth 2.6m) is at E. Barrow (RO011-097002-) is 10m to the NE, and rath (RO011-096----) is c. 150m to the N.
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.