Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Drinaun, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Drinaun
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.80578, -8.16345
- SMR number
- RO023-057----
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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 the crest of a broad E-W ridge. Circular scrub-covered area (diam. 29.2m E-W; 26.7m N-S) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (Wth 3.3-4.1m; int. H 0.3-0.6m; ext. H 0.8-1.3m), with an outer fosse (Wth of top 4m; Wth of base 2.2m; D 0.2m) SE-W-NW. There is an entrance (Wth 3m) and causeway (Wth 4m) at SE. The W part of the interior has been excavated as a pond (dims. 24m N-S; 9m E-W; D 1m) with the spoil added to the bank at W, and a pond has been dug in the fosse at NW. Rath (RO023-056----) is c. 100m to the N and rath (RO023-058----) is c. 200m to the NE.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Crannogunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.