Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Skeanavart, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Skeanavart
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.87160, -8.23115
- SMR number
- RO016-058----
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 only on the 1914 ed. of the OS 6-inch map as a D-shaped feature (dims c. 40m NW-SE; c. 20m NE-SW), and situated on the NE-facing slope of a broad plateau and on the SW side of a NW-SE road. Described as an arc of an earthen bank truncated by the road at NE (Gannon 1972). It is no longer visible at ground level in pasture.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
References
Gannon, A. 1972 Archaeological survey of Roscommon. Unpublished typed index cards prepared for Roscommon County Council.
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - mound barrowunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.