Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Grallagh (frenchpark By.), County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Grallagh (frenchpark By.)
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.84826, -8.47693
- SMR number
- RO014-052001-
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 steep N-facing slope. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 42.3m N-S; 39m E-W) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (at W: Wth 2.7m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 1.4m; at E: Wth 5.2m; int. H 0.8m; ext. H 1.4m) which is reduced to a scarp (H 1.1m) N-NE and SW-W, and a fosse which only survives as a re-cut drain (Wth of base 3m; D 0.6m) SW-WNW. An entrance (Wth 2m) at SE is probably modern or modernized, and there is a clearance cairn (RO014-052002-) (dims 7m x 5m; H 0.9m) inside the bank at SE. The possible ringfort (RO014-055----) is c. 200m to the S.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Cairn - clearance cairnunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.