Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Gortaganny (frenchpark By.), County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gortaganny (frenchpark By.)
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.81817, -8.69907
- SMR number
- RO019-006----
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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
Marked as a circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 35m) on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and as a a rectangular feature (dims c. 30m ENE-WSW; c. 20m NNW-SSE) on the 1914 ed. Situated on low-lying ground c. 30m from the E shore of Errit Lough. This is a rectangular grass and reed-covered area (dims 37.5m E-W; 22m N-S) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (Wth 2.3m; int. H 1.3m; ext. H 0.5m) at W and scarps (H 0.2-0.5m) on the other sides, with traces of a fosse (Wth of top 6.8m; Wth of base 3m; ext. D 0.1m) ESE-S. There is no visible entrance, but the site may have been a rath.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.