Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Hilltop enclosure
Caldragh (roscommon By.), County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Caldragh (roscommon By.)
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.81478, -8.14535
- SMR number
- RO023-054----
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
Marked as a large D-shaped embanked enclosure (ext. dims c. 110m E-W; c. 90m N-S) truncated by a WNW-ESE field bank at SW on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated at the W end of a low E-W drumlin ridge. An arc (C c. 80m) of earthen bank and hedge (Wth 4m; int. H 0.8m; ext. H 1.7m) and outer fosse (Wth of top 4m; Wth of base 2.1m; D 0.9m) survives WSW-N.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Hilltop enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.