Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Rathroe, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rathroe
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.84482, -8.27596
- SMR number
- RO016-112----
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 low E-W ridge. Subcircular grass-covered area (dims 38m E-W; 33m N-S) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (at SE: Wth 3.2m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 1.1m) E-S-W which is incorporated into a field bank and hedge (at N: Wth 6.2m; int. H 1.1m; ext. H 1.7m) with an inner drain elsewhere. There are modern entrances at WSW and ESE, and an outer fosse (Wth of base 4.5m; D 0.4m) E-S.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
- Pitfieldunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.