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Ringfort - rath

Mullaghmore, County Roscommon, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Mullaghmore, County Roscommon, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Mullaghmore
County
Roscommon
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.93402, -8.11299
SMR number
RO011-189----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Situated at a break in slope on a gentle E-facing slope. This feature was first identified and recorded by Susan Curran as part of an M.A. thesis with University College Dublin using a LiDAR survey dataset commissioned by Leitrim County Council and the National Roads Authority in 2012. This is a subcircular grass-covered area (dims c. 30m E-W; c. 25m N-S) defined by an earthen bank (Wth c. 1.5m; H c. 0.4m) SE-SW which is incorporated into a field bank SW-NW and visible as a scarp elsewhere.
A magnetic gradiometry survey identified a positive magnetic anomaly outside the bank SE-SW and an earth resistance survey confirmed an area of high resistance in the same area that can be interpreted as a stone-filled fosse feature, but it was not possible to conduct these surveys on the steep E side of the enclosure. It may be a rath, but it could also be a small field. (Curran 2016, 8-10)

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 8 June 2018

References

Curran, S. 2016 Geophysical survey report: Mullaghmore, Co. Roscommon. RMP: RO011-179; Licence No.: 16R0122. Unpublished report, Author

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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