Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Dangan (nugent), County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dangan (nugent)
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.90391, -8.01828
- SMR number
- RO012-009----
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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 bottom of the E-facing slope of a drumlin. Subcircular grass-covered but poached area (dims 26.3m E-W; 22.5m N-S) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (Wth 3-4.2m; int. H 0.2-0.5m; ext. H 0.3-0.9m) S-SW which is incorporated into a field bank with an inner drain W-NE, and a scarp (max. H 0.9m) elsewhere. There is an outer fosse (Wth of top 2m at S to 3.8m at N; D 0.1-0.5m) SE-S and NW-N, but there is no visible entrance. Rath (RO012-010----) is c. 140m to the SE.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Crannogunder 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.