Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Tullintuppeen, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Tullintuppeen
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.80330, -8.27274
- SMR number
- RO022-056048-
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
On a knoll in a gently undulating low-lying landscape at the E foot of Rathcroghan plateau. Circular grass-covered platform (diam. 24.2m N-S; 24m E-W; H 0.8m at E to 1.6-1.7m generally) defined by a flat-bottomed fosse (Wth of top 6.6-8.2m; Wth of base 3.2-4m; D 0.2-0.4m) SW-N-SE, with an outer bank (Wth 2.6m; ext. H 0.2-0.4m) SW-NW which is incorporated into a field bank (Wth 2m; ext. H 0.3m) NE-SE (max. ext. diam. 40.5m E-W). There is a ramp entrance (Wth 4.6m) onto the mound at E.
See the attached aerial image taken from the WNW.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Road - road/trackwayunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Pitfieldunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.