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
- 53.79764, -8.04252
- SMR number
- RO023-144----
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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 E-facing slope. Subcircular or D-shaped grass-covered area used as a haggard (dims 65.2m NE-SW; 58m NW-SE) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (Wth 2.4-4.6m; int. H 0.2-0.5m; ext. H 0.7m) E-S-N, which is reduced to a scarp (H 0.6m) N-E and incorporated into a field boundary S-W, and a complete fosse (Wth of top 3.8-4.7m; Wth of base 2.4-2.8m; D 0.2-0.6m) which is re-cut as a drain S-W. The original entrance is not identified, while the perimeter at NW and parts of the interior have been quarried.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
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- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Bridgeunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.