Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Fearagh (mahon), County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Fearagh (mahon)
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.87136, -8.04370
- SMR number
- RO017-102----
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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 gentle E-facing slope of a drumlin. Circular overgrown area (diam. 38m E-W; 36m N-S) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (at E: Wth 3.7m; int. H 0.9m; ext. H 1.8m) and outer fosse (at E: Wth of top 3.6m; Wth of base 1m; D 0.6m) NE-S-SW, and by a scarp (H 0.9m) down to the interior elsewhere. A NE-SW field bank overlies the interior W of the centre. There is no visible entrance. Rath (RO017-103----) is c. 120m to the NE and rath (RO017-100----) is c. 220m to the NW.
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
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.