Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ceremonial enclosure
Rockville, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rockville
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.87649, -8.09182
- SMR number
- RO017-089001-
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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 top of a drumlin in mixed woodland called Mullinashee Wood which had been recently cut in 1996. In 1535 Maelsechlainn Mc Cairbre O Birn was killed here by some MacDermots, (MacDermot 1996, 133; ALC vol. 2, 289). This is a circular enclosure (diam. c. 100m) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 3.5-4m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 1m) and an outer fosse (Wth of top 4m; Wth of base 2.5m; D 0.7-1m). It is listed as a hillfort (O'Nuallain 1968, 26), and cairn (RO017-089002-) is at the centre. Rath (RO017-041----) is c. 120m to the NE.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
References
Mac Dermot, D. 1996 Mac Dermot of Moylurg: the story of a Connacht family. Manorhamilton. Drumlin.
ALC - The Annals of Lough Cé: a chronicle of Irish affairs, 1014-1690, ed. W.M. Hennessy (2 vols., London, 1871; reflex facsimile, Irish Manuscripts Commission, Dublin, 1939)
Ó Nualláin, S. 1968 A ruined megalithic cemetery in Co. Donegal and its context in the Irish passage grave series. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 98, 1-29.
Nearby in the register
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.