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
- 53.87252, -8.04174
- SMR number
- RO017-103----
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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 SE-facing slope. Oval area used as a garden (dims 40m NNE-SSW; 32m WNW-ESE) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (at NNE: Wth 3.6m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 1.8m; at ESE: Wth 4.2m; int. H 1m; ext. H 1.8m) and an outer fosse (Wth of top 5.3m; Wth of base 2.9m; D 0.3-0.7m) WNW-N-ESE, and by a scarp (H 0.3m at WNW to 1.6m at SSW) elsewhere. The entrance (Wth 2.8m) and denuded causeway (Wth 3m) are at ESE and there are inner facing stones on the bank at NE (L 1.4m). Field banks and drains radiate off the perimeter at ESE, SE and SW, and the fosse is re-cut as a field drain SE-SW. Rath (RO017-102----) is c. 120m to the SW.
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
- Enclosure - large enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.