Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ardmacroan, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ardmacroan
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.89255, -8.03961
- SMR number
- RO011-136----
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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 low-lying landscape with drumlins to the E and W and a S-N stream or drain c. 15m to the W. D-shaped overgrown area (dims c. 23m E-W; c. 15m N-S) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 4m at E to 5m at W; int. H 0.3-1m; ext. H 0.8-1.5m) and an outer fosse (Wth of top 3.8m at W to 5.7m at E; D 0.3-0.85m) W-N-E. There is no visible entrance, and the site is truncated by an E-W farm roadway at S. Enclosure (RO011-137----) is c. 110m to the ENE.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 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.