Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Dangan (king), County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dangan (king)
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.89306, -8.03251
- SMR number
- RO011-138----
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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 rise in a low-lying landscape with a NW-SE stream or drain c. 30m to the SW. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 22m) defined by a scarp (H 0.3m at N to 0.9m at S), with an outer fosse (Wth of top 7-7.8m; D 0.35-0.6m) at N and E-SE, but the fosse is reduced to a berm SSW-SW. There is no visible entrance, and a NNE-SSW field bank truncates the fosse at W. Dangan castle (RO011-139----) is c. 40m to the E.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.