Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Aghamore (roscommon By., Aughrim West Ed), County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Aghamore (roscommon By., Aughrim West Ed)
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.87255, -8.12657
- SMR number
- RO017-080----
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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 rise. Subcircular grass-covered area (dims 38m E-W; 34m N-S) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (at E: Wth 3.3m; int. H 0.25m; ext. H 0.75m; at N: Wth 5.5m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 1.8m) N-ESE, which is reduced to a scarp (H 0.7m at S to 1.95m at W) elsewhere, with an outer fosse (Wth of top 7.7m; Wth of base 4.2-5.2m; D 0.4m at W to 0.95m at N) WSW-NE which is reduced to a berm (Wth 7.5m) defined by a scarp (H 0.7m) E-SE. The fosse is truncated NE-SW by a NW-SE road bank and by an ENE-WSW field wall at SW, and there is no visible entrance.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.