Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Knocknagawna, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knocknagawna
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.88712, -8.06696
- SMR number
- RO017-055----
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 the SW-facing slope of a drumlin. Circular grass and scrub-covered area (diam. 48m N-S; 48m E-W) defined by an earthen bank with some bushes (Wth 2.85m at N to 3.6m at E; int. H 0.45m at S to 0.85m at W; ext. H 0.8m at N to 1m E-W), and an outer fosse (Wth of base 2m at S to 3.3m N; D 0.1m at S to 0.3m at N) SE-W-NNE. There is no visible entrance, but the perimeter is quarried NNE-ENE.
See the attached aerial view taken from the SSE.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Kiln - corn-dryingunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.