Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Moneyboy, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Moneyboy
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.77766, -8.19527
- SMR number
- RO022-134----
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
At the crest of a small E-W drumlin ridge. Subcircular grass-covered area (dims 50m E-W; 43.8m N-S) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 2-2.6m; int. H 0.2-0.5m; ext. H 0.2-0.6m) with some bushes which is incorporated into a field bank SW-NW, and reduced to a scarp (H 0.3-0.5m) N-E and SSE-SW. There is no visible fosse or identifiable original entrance. Rath (RO022-133----) is c. 220m to the WSW.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.