Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Tansyfield, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Tansyfield
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.83389, -8.13460
- SMR number
- RO023-015----
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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 the N-facing slope at the E end of an E-W drumlin ridge. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 36.7m N-S; 34.2m E-W) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (Wth 4.2-4.8m; int. H 0.2m at E to 1m at W) which is reduced to an overgrown scarp NW-NE where the site is curtailed by an E-W field bank, and a fosse (Wth of top 4.4m; Wth of base 2.2-2.4m; D 0.6m) SE-W-NNW. The original entrance is not identified. Rath (RO023-016----) is c. 30m to the SE.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Buildingunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.