Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Gortnasillagh, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gortnasillagh
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.78244, -8.34518
- SMR number
- RO021-080----
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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
Just off the NE-facing slope of a slight NW-SE ridge. Circular grass-covered platform (diam. 24.3m ENE-WSW; 22.8m WNW-ESE; H 1.7m at E to 2.2-2.7m generally) defined by a flat-bottomed fosse (Wth of top 7.6-8.7m; Wth of base 3-4m; D 0.4-0.9m), and a slight outer bank (Wth 4m; H 0.1-0.2m) S-NNW. There are traces of the fosse NNW-ENE (max. ext. diam. 44.5m ENE-WSW), but there is no identifiable original entrance. A WNW-ESE field bank and hedge overlie the base of the platform at N, and the SE quadrant has been quarried (D 0.6-1m). Described as a ring-barrow (Herity 1983, 137).
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
References
Herity, M. 1983 A survey of the royal site of Cruachain in Connacht, 1. Introduction, the monuments and topography. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 113, 121-42.
Nearby in the register
- Pitfieldunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Pitfieldunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.