Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Loughglinn Demesne, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Loughglinn Demesne
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.83028, -8.54584
- SMR number
- RO020-008----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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)
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
Marked only on the 1914 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated on the crest of a broad E-W ridge. Subcircular grass-covered area (dims 56m E-W; 49.5m N-S) defined by the remains of a fosse (Wth of top 6.7-10.3m; Wth of base 3.8-4.4m; int. D 0.4m; ext. D 0.1-0.5m). A wide entrance was noted at ESE (Gannon 1972), but cannot be seen now (max. ext. dims 73m E-W; 65.5m N-S).
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- House - 18th/19th centuryunder 1 mi
- Inscribed stone (present location)under 1 mi
- Crannogunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.