Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Frenchpark Demesne, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Frenchpark Demesne
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.88369, -8.41109
- SMR number
- RO015-009----
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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 and wooded enclosure (int. diam. c. 40m; max. ext. diam. c. 70m) on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map and as an embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 70m), perhaps with an inner mound, on the 1914 ed. Situated on a level landscape. It is not visible at ground level in pasture. Rath (RO015-010----) is c. 100m to the ESE.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Kiln - limeunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.