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
- 53.83008, -8.23363
- SMR number
- RO022-033----
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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
On a slight NW-SE ridge. Circular grass and reed-covered area (diam. 26.8m NNW-SSE; 26.4m ENE-WSW) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (Wth 2.8m; int. H 0.1-0.2m; ext. H 0.5-0.8m), which is reduced to a scarp (H 0.7m) S-W, and a fosse (Wth of top 4.7m; Wth of base 2.4m; max. D 0.4m) ESE-WSW. There is an entrance (Wth 2m) at ESE. A flat-topped grass-covered mound (diam. of base 6m; H 0.4m) against the inside of the perimeter at NW may be spoil from shallow quarries in the E of the interior. Rath (RO022-032----) is c. 150m to the SW.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Concentric enclosureunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Pitfieldunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.