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Ringfort - rath

Ross More East, County Roscommon, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Ross More East, 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
Ross More East
County
Roscommon
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.81149, -8.22467
SMR number
RO022-066002-

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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

Visible on aerial photograph (OS: 4/2050), and situated on a slight E-W rise on the floor of a valley with a small W-E stream c. 25m to the N. D-shaped grass-covered platform (dims c. 36m N-S; 33m E-W) defined by a scarp (H 1.4-1.5m) SW-W-NE, and by a fosse (Wth of top 6m; int. D 0.4m; ext. D 0.1m) on the straight E side (L 10m), but the perimeter merges into the slope SE-SW. There is no visible entrance, and the fosse is represented by a berm (Wth 3.5m) NW-NE. Rath (RO022-066001-) is 14m to the NW.

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 24 August 2010

References

OSAP - Ordnance Survey Aerial Photographs. Photographic collection. Ordnance Survey of Ireland. Dublin.

Nearby in the register

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

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