Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Vesnoy, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Vesnoy
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.78335, -8.09635
- SMR number
- RO023-171001-
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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 rush-covered area (dims 42m NE-SW; 34m NW-SE) defined by a low overgrown earthen bank (Wth 4.4m; int. H 0.1m; ext. H 0.9m) NE-S-W which is incorporated into a field and road bank (Wth 2.3-4.6m; int. H 0.7-0.9m; ext. H 0.9-1.9m) elsewhere, and a fosse (at SW: Wth of top 6m; Wth of base 3m; ext. D 0.7m) NE-S-SW which has been extended into a pond at E. There is a modern entrance at NW, but the original entrance (Wth 3.5m) and causeway (Wth 5m) are at SE and lead directly into rath (RO023-171002-). Archaeological testing (01E0564) c. 50m to the NW failed to produce any related material (Read 2003e). Rath (RO023-212----) is c. 120m to the WNW.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
References
Read, C. 2003e Kildaloge, Strokestown: no archaeological significance. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2001: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 356, No. 1125. Bray. Wordwell.
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