Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Gillstown, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gillstown
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.80298, -8.04978
- SMR number
- RO023-143001-
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 SW-facing slope with a S-N section of the Scrammoge River c. 220m to the W. Described as a circular area (diam. c. 34m N-S) defined by two earthen banks and an intervening fosse with a possible hut site (RO023-143002-) at the centre (Gannon 1972). It is not now visible at ground level in pasture.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
References
Gannon, A. 1972 Archaeological survey of Roscommon. Unpublished typed index cards prepared for Roscommon County Council.
Nearby in the register
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Water mill - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Bridgeunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.