Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure - large enclosure
Rattinagh, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rattinagh
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.81753, -8.06806
- SMR number
- RO023-099001-
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
On a gentle S-facing slope. Oval grass-covered area (dims 70m E-W; 60m N-S) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 3.8-6.8m; int. H 0.6m at W to 2.2m at E; ext. H 1.6m) and hedge with an outer fosse (at E: Wth of top 3.8m; Wth of base 1-2m; D 0.6m) which is partly obscured by spoil SW-N-SE, and by a grass-covered fosse (Wth of top 5m; D 0.4-0.5m) SE-SW. The original entrance is not identified but the bank and fosse surround a rectangular enclosure or annexe (RO023-099002-) (dims c. 50m E-W; c. 30m N-S) attached externally to the fosse SE-SW. Rath (RO023-100----) is c. 150m to the SSE.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Mill - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.