Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Rathmoyle, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rathmoyle
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.78926, -8.37187
- SMR number
- RO021-065001-
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
Marked only on the 1929 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated on a knoll on a gentle W and S-facing slope. D-shaped grass-covered convex area (dims 26.5m N-S; 26.5m E-W; H 0.7m at E to 1.6-1.8m generally) defined by a scarp (H 0.8m at W to 1.4m at S) at its base, with a berm (Wth 2-3m) NE-E and S-NW. The straight edge (L 14.5m) at N is parallel with a field bank, now removed, 6m distant of field system (RO021-047----). There is a ramp entrance (Wth 3m) at S
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
- Sweathouseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.