Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ishlaun, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ishlaun
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.88928, -8.62587
- SMR number
- RO013-001----
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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
At the N end of the crest of a low NW-SE ridge. Subcircular grass-covered area (dims 36.2m E-W; 32.5m N-S) defined by an overgrown and gapped earthen bank (Wth 4.6-5.5m; int. H 0.6-0.8m; ext. H 1.4-1.5m), which has been truncated at E (Wth 2.3m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 0.8m) by a N-S field bank outside it and reduced to a scarp (H c. 0.8m) W-N. There is no visible fosse or entrance. Archaeological testing (05E0122) c. 50m to the W failed to produce any related material (Read, C. 2008g).
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
References
Read, C. 2008g Ishlawn. No archaeological significance. in I. Bennett (ed.) Excavations 2005: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 325, No. 1337. Dublin, Wordwell
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.