Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Eden, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Eden
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.83008, -8.49574
- SMR number
- RO020-011001-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
Towards the bottom of a gentle S-facing slope. Oval grass-covered area (dims 34.4m N-S; 27m E-W) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (Wth 2.7-4.3m; int. H 0.2-0.5m; ext. H 0.6-1.3m), which is reduced to a scarp (H c. 0.6m) S-SW, and a complete outer fosse (Wth of top 4.7-6.3m; Wth of base 3-3.2m; D 0.2-0.4m). The site is bisected by a NNE-SSW field wall with a farm track E of this which has created entrance gaps (Wth 2m) at N and S, but an original entrance is not identified. Souterrain (RO020-011002-) is inside the perimeter at S. The W part is preserved, unplanted, in a coniferous forest (Bing c. 2013).
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.