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Ringfort - rath

Tooloscan, County Roscommon, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Tooloscan, 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
Tooloscan
County
Roscommon
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.89616, -8.00394
SMR number
RO012-023----

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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 on a rise towards the bottom of a SW-facing slope. It was first identified 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. This is a circular grass-covered area (diam. 30m E-W; 29m N-S) defined by an earthen bank (at NW: Wth of base 5.5m; Wth of top 1.4m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 0.9m) SW-W-N, which is reduced to a scarp (at E: Wth 3.5m; H 0.9m) N-E-S. The perimeter is slightly truncated by a NW-SE field bank at SW. A section of external fosse (at ENE: Wth of top 6.5m; Wth of base 1.9m; int. D 0.9m; ext. D 0.15m) survives N-E, with a causewayed entrance (Wth 4m) at NE. The fosse is replaced by a farm road which skirts the bank WSW-N, and there is a NE-SW field bank just outside the perimeter at SE.

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 12 May 2015

Nearby in the register

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

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