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Ringfort - rath

Cherryfield Or Drishaghan, County Roscommon, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Cherryfield Or Drishaghan, County Roscommon, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Cherryfield Or Drishaghan
County
Roscommon
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Embanked enclosure
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
53.83092, -8.21600
SMR number
RO022-044001-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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

On a rise in a low-lying landscape. Circular grass and rush-covered area (diam. 27.6m WNW-ESE; 26.2m NNE-SSW) defined by a grass-covered earthen bank (Wth 2.5-2.7m; int. H 0.2-0.4m; ext. H 0.5-0.7m) and rush-covered fosse (Wth 1.5m), which is separated by a berm (Wth 1-2m) from the base of the bank WNW-N, the fosse being re-cut and quite wide (Wth 7m; int. D 0.6m; ext. D 0.3m) here. The modernised entrance (Wth 1.6m) is at N.
The monument is enclosed by an outer earthen bank (Wth 2.5-3m; int. H 0.1-0.4m; ext. H 0.3m) and outer fosse or rush-filled ditch (Wth 1-2m), except WNW-N where the rath fosse has been widened. This outer bank also encloses a rectangular annexe (RO022-044002-) (dims c. 28m NE-SW; 12m NW-SE) outside the rath to the SE. There is a record from 1980 of a field bank (RO022-044003-) extending N (L c. 30m) c. 20m N of the NE angle of the annexe (SMR file), but this feature does not survive. Rath (RO022-045----) is c. 200m to the SE.

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 24 August 2010

References

SMR file - Sites and monuments record files in the National Monuments Service, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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