Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Mullaghmore, County Roscommon, Ireland
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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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
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 Unpublished report, Author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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
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- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.