Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Rathnarovanagh, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rathnarovanagh
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.88043, -8.03579
- SMR number
- RO017-067----
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 the gentle SW-facing slope of a drumlin. Subcircular grass-covered area (dims 49m NW-SE; 44m NE-SW) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (at SW: Wth 3.5m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 1.1m) SE-W-NNW, and elsewhere by a scarp (at NE: H 1.1m) and hedge. The fosse (at NE: Wth of top 3.9; Wth of base 1.7m; D 0.9m; at SW: Wth of top 4.4m; Wth of base 2.8m; D 0.4m) E-S-NW is re-cut as a drain NW-E. There is an outer bank (at SW: Wth 1.9m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 0.3m) SW-WNW, and a NW-SE field bank bisects the interior. There are modern entrances (Wth 2-2.5m) at S and NW, but the original entrance (Wth 0.9m) is at NE.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
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- Hut siteunder 1 mi
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.