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
- 53.87980, -8.12295
- SMR number
- RO017-018----
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
Towards the bottom of an E-facing slope. Oval overgrown area (diam. 38m N-S; 26m E-W) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 5.5m; int. H 0.75m; ext. H 1-1.7m) and an outer fosse (Wth of base 2.8m generally to 4.4m at E; D 0.15m at E to 0.7m at S) E-S-NNW, but the perimeter is reduced to a scarp (H 0.8m) elsewhere and the fosse is re-cut as a field drain SW-NW. There is no visible entrance. Rath (RO017-019----) is c. 110m to the NE.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.