Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Arraghan, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Arraghan
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.82666, -8.40040
- SMR number
- RO021-006003-
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 SE-facing slope. Circular overgrown area (diam. 42m NNW-SSE) defined by a scarp (H 0.3m at N), and by a fosse (Wth of top 5m; int. D 1.2m; ext. D 0.3m) E-SW. There is no identifiable original entrance, and cashel (RO021-006001-) is situated in the N interior.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.