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
- 53.84610, -8.47723
- SMR number
- RO014-055----
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
Marked as a circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 40m) on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map and as an oval enclosure (dims c. 65m N-S; c. 35m E-W) defined by a field bank S-W-N and a relict bank or fosse N-E-S on the 1914 ed. Situated on a gentle NE-facing slope, it is not visible at ground level in pasture. Rath (RO014-052001-) is c. 200m to the N.
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
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.