Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Creeve (Roscommon By., Creeve ED), County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Creeve (Roscommon By., Creeve ED)
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.84374, -8.14331
- SMR number
- RO017-159----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
Marked as a large circular embanked enclosure on the 1837 (ext. diam. c. 50m) and 1914 (ext. diam. c. 70m) eds of the OS 6-inch map, and situated in a low-lying landscape. It is not visible at ground level in pasture. However, it is visible as a circular area (int. diam. c. 40m; ext. diam. c. 65m) with two bank and two fosse features surviving SSW-N on OSI Ortho images (c. 2010). Rath (RO017-158----) is c. 170m to the WSW.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of revised upload: 25 June 2018
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.