Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Scor More, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Scor More
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.86821, -8.25999
- SMR number
- RO016-049----
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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 low rise in a low-lying landscape. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 40.5m N-S) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 2.5m at S to 4.8m at N; int. H 0.2m at NE to 0.75m generally; ext. H 1.25m at S to 1.95m at N) NNW-E-WSW which is reduced to a scarp (H 1.4m) elsewhere, and a fosse (Wth of base 3.5m; D 0.5m) at SW, its line represented by a band of lush vegetation W-NE. The entrance is not identified, and a pond has been dug in the fosse at W. Rath (RO016-045----) is c. 90m to the N.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.