Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Earthwork
Flaskagh More, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Flaskagh More
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Lisdoonbeg Fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Lisdoonbeg
- Coordinates
- 53.81192, -8.26493
- SMR number
- RO022-059----
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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
Consisting of a small hillock on the floor of a slight E-W valley with a canalized W-E stream immediately to the N. Subcircular, domed (H 1m at NW to 2.5m at SW) and grass-covered area (dims 30.7m NW-SE; 26.8m NE-SW) defined by a scarp (H 0.8m at SE to 2.7m at NW), with a berm (Wth 1m at SW to 5.5m at SE) spiraling up the mound anti-clockwise W-NE. There is a slight outer bank (Wth 4m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 0.7m) and outer fosse (Wth of top 5m; Wth of base 1.2m; ext. D 0.5m) at the outer edge of the berm at SE. Rath (RO022-058----) is c. 250m to the WNW and rath (RO022-060----) is c. 250m to the SW.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.