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Ringfort - rath

Charlestown, County Roscommon, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Charlestown, 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
Charlestown
County
Roscommon
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.93084, -8.01377
SMR number
RO012-024----

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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 slight rise on the W bank of a N-S section of the River Shannon with the stream immediately to the E. It was first identified by S. 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 now a D-shaped area that remained unplanted within a coniferous forest but is now covered in mixed woodland. It is a D-shaped area (dims 37m N-S; 36m E-W) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 4.3-5.1m; int. H 0.2-0.3m; ext. H 1.5-1.6m) SSE-W-N with E-W scarps (H c. 1-1.5m) at N and S that extend to the river bank. There is an outer fosse (Wth of top 6.4-6.7m; Wth of base 2-2.7m; ext. D 0.4-0.5m) SW-N. The W part of the interior is level but the E part slopes down to the river bank and was probably damaged at some time. There is a wide, modern entrance at NW but the probable original entrance (Wth of base 2.2m) at SSE may have been widened.

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 23 April, 2013
Amended: 15 April, 2014

Nearby in the register

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

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