Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - unclassified
Drimnagh, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Drimnagh
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.78564, -8.28557
- SMR number
- RO022-100----
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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 S-facing slope of Rathcroghan. Described as a circular area (diam. 30m E-W; 27.5m N-S) defined by an earthen bank and fosse with an entrance (Wth 3.5m) at SSE (Gannon 1972), and as a cashel (Herity 1984, 137). There are slight traces of an enclosure (int. diam. 33m; ext. diam. 41.5m) defined by a slight stoney rise (H 0.1m) within a coniferous forest. Rath (RO022-099----) is c. 250m to the WNW.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
References
Gannon, A. 1972 Archaeological survey of Roscommon. Unpublished typed index cards prepared for Roscommon County Council.
Herity, M. 1984 A survey of the royal site of Cruachain in Connacht, 2. Prehistoric monuments. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 114, 125-35.
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.