Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ross Beg, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ross Beg
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.82138, -8.22998
- SMR number
- RO022-168----
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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
First identified in an unpublished archaeological LiDAR report (Davis, 2015) commissioned by Roscommon County Council as part of the Environmental Impact Assessment for the N5 Ballaghaderreen - Scramoge road development. It is located in rough pasture on a low E-W ridge. This is a D-shaped grass-covered area (dims 29m N-S; 22m E-W) defined by a scarp that increases from NE (at E: Wth 3m; H 0.4m) around to SW (at: S: Wth 6m; H 1.05m). There is no visible fosse or an identifiable original entrance, but it is truncated by an E-W field bank at N and a N-S field bank at W.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of revised upload: 5 August, 2016
References
Davis, S. 2015 N5 Strokestown - Ballaghderreen preferred route corridor: Lidar assessment. unpublished report for Roscommon County Council: UCD School of Archaeology
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.