Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Portobello, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Portobello
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.89056, -8.23264
- SMR number
- RO016-017----
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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 only on the 1914 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated on a low rise in an area of rock outcrop. D-shaped grass-covered area (dims 23.2m ENE-WSW; 21.5m NNW-SSE) with the straight NNW-SSE edge (L c. 21m) at W defined by a curving scarp (H 0.6m at E to 1.5m at N) NW-E, which merges into the ground E-S. There is an outer berm (Wth 1m; H 0.25m) NW-N, but there is no visible entrance.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.