Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Cammoge, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cammoge
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.80049, -8.26654
- SMR number
- RO022-077----
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 low E-W ridge. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 35m WNW-ESE; 34m NNE-SSW) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (Wth 4.2-6.8m; int. H 0.4-0.7m; ext. H 1.7-2.5m) NE-S-SW and NW-N, but reduced to a scarp (H 2m) elsewhere. It is surrounded by a fosse (Wth of top 6.2-7.8m; Wth of base 2.5-3m; D 0.2-0.5m) SSW-N-E (max. ext. dim. 50m N-S), and the entrance (Wth 3.7m) is at SE, the lowest point of the interior.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Barrow - embanked barrowunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.