Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ross More West, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ross More West
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.81330, -8.24426
- SMR number
- RO022-063----
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
Towards the bottom of a S-facing slope. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 44.7m N-S; 41m E-W) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 3.5-4m; int. H 0.3-0.5m; ext. H 0.3-0.8m) N-SE which is reduced to a scarp (H 1.2m) SE-SW, with a fosse (at N: Wth of top 4.3m; Wth of base 2.6m; D 0.5m) N-ENE. It is truncated by a N-S field bank at W, and there is a modern entrance (Wth 3.5m) at N.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.