Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Moheedian, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Moheedian
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.88771, -8.17673
- SMR number
- RO016-033----
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 slight rise in a gently undulating landscape. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 33m N-S) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 5m; int. H 0.5-0.8m; ext. H 1.6m) which is reduced to a scarp (H1.1m) NE-SSE, separated by a fosse (Wth of top 6-6.5m; Wth of base 2.5-4.7m; D 0.55-0.7m) from an outer bank (Wth 3.7m; ext. H 0.4m) which only survives ESE-SSW. There is no identifiable original entrance.
See the attached aerial image taken from the NW.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 2/1957).
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.