Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Creaghnakirka, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Creaghnakirka
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.88002, -8.13324
- SMR number
- RO017-014----
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 drumlin. Circular grass and scrub-covered but poached area (diam. c. 38m N-S) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (Wth 4m; int. H 0.2-1m; ext. H 1.8-2.2m) NNE-SSE, and by a scarp (H 1-1.5m) elsewhere, with an outer fosse (Wth of base 2-3.5m; D 0.2-0.6m) NE-S-SW. There is no visible entrance.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.