Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Buckill, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Buckill
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.85443, -8.51631
- SMR number
- RO014-044----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
On a gentle S-facing slope. Circular area used as a paddock (diam. 38m E-W; 36m N-S) defined by a flat-topped earthen bank (Wth of base 3.3-4.7m; Wth of top 2-2.5m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 1.5m) NNE-SE which is incorporated into a field bank (Wth 3.3m; int. H 0.9m; ext. H 1.8m) NW-NNE, and a complete overgrown fosse (Wth of base 3-3.6m; D 0.5-0.7m). There is an outer bank (Wth of base 3.3m; Wth of top 1.3m; ext. H 0.2m) SE-SW and at N, and there are widened entrances at NE, SE and SW.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.