Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Erriblagh, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Erriblagh
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.87457, -8.21762
- SMR number
- RO016-069----
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
At the E end of an E-W ridge. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 34m N-S; 34m E-W) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 4.75m; int. H 0.5-0.75m; ext. H 1.75m) S-SW, and by a scarp (H 0.75m) elsewhere, with a fosse (Wth of top 8.5-10m; Wth of base 7.3m) SSW-W-NNE, and an outer bank (Wth 5m; int. H 0.9m; ext. H 0.6m) SSW-WSW. There is no visible entrance but there is a relict NNE-SSW field bank outside the perimeter at E.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.