Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Gortnacrannagh, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gortnacrannagh
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.82917, -8.23619
- SMR number
- RO022-032----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
Marked as a D-shaped embanked feature (ext. dims c. 40m N-S; c. 25m E-W) truncated by a N-S field bank at E on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and as a circular feature overlain by a N-S field bank on the 1927 ed. It is situated on a shelf of a NW-facing slope. D-shaped grass-covered area (dims 30m N-S; c. 15m E-W) defined by a fosse (Wth of top 5m; max. D 0.2m) S-W. It is cut by a N-S field wall and no archaeological feature is visible E of this. Rath (RO022-033----) is c. 150m to the NE.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of revised upload: 10 May 2018
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.