Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Moated site
Parkeel, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Parkeel
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.82529, -8.48357
- SMR number
- RO020-012----
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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 with a dry NE-SW stream bed curving around the site W-N. Rectangular grass-covered area (dims 32.8m NE-SW; 29m NW-SE) defined by flat-bottomed moats at NE (Wth of base 5.5m; int. D 0.5m), SE (Wth of base 3.3m; int. D 0.7m; ext. D 0.5m) and NW (Wth 5m; D 0.1m) with a scarp (H 0.2m) at SW. There is an outer overgrown bank (Wth 5.7m; int. H 1.4m; ext. H 0.4m) at NE and traces of an outer bank (Wth 3m) with an outer moat (Wth of base 2.6m; int. D 0.2m; ext. D 1.1m) at SW.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 29th September, 2010
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Cairn - clearance cairnunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.