Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Dunmurraghoe, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dunmurraghoe
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.80564, -8.12517
- SMR number
- RO023-073----
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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 a broad col with hills rising to the SW, NE and E. Subcircular grass-covered area (dims 36m N-S; 32m E-W) defined by an overgrown flat-topped earthen bank (Wth of base 4-6.2m; Wth of top 1.8-2.7m; int. H 0.2-0.5m; ext. H 1-1.9m) which is reduced to a scarp (H 0.7m) NNW-NE, and an outer fosse (Wth of top 4.3-5m; Wth of base 2.3-5m; D 0.3-0.4m) NE-E-SW which is circumscribed by a field bank SW-NW. The widened entrance (Wth 3m) is at SW.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.