Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Lugateane, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lugateane
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.88759, -8.12149
- SMR number
- RO017-017----
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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 level landscape. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 57m N-S; 54m E-W) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (Wth 4.5m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 1.4m) N-NE which is reduced to a scarp (H 1.3m) elsewhere, separated by a fosse (Wth of top 5m at SW to 7m at W; Wth of base 3.5m generally to 5m at S) from an overgrown earthen bank (Wth 5.8-7.5m; int. H 0.6-1.5m; ext. H 0.6-1.5m). There is a second fosse (Wth of base 3.7-4.5m; D 0.2m) at SW and N-E, which is also visible as a band of lush vegetation (Wth 3m) SW-NW. A third outer bank (Wth 4.5m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 0.7m) survives NE-ENE, but there is no visible entrance. A NE-SW field bank truncates all the features at SE except the central platform.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
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- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.