Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Vesnoy, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Vesnoy
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enlcosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.78309, -8.09602
- SMR number
- RO023-171002-
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. Subcircular grass and rush-covered area (dims 38.1m NE-SW; 31m NW-SE) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (Wth 4.4-6.3m; int. H 1m; ext. H 1.1-1.9m), which is reduced to a scarp (H 0.2m) NW-NNE where it shares its fosse with rath (RO023-171001-), lying immediately to the NW. Elsewhere the fosse (at SW: Wth of top 3.8-6.2m; Wth of base 2-3.3m; D 0.6m) is only visible S-NW. There is an entrance (Wth 2.8m) at SE. Archaeological testing (98E0453) immediately to the E failed to produce any related material (Walsh 2000b).
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
References
Walsh, G. 2000b Vesnoy: no archaeological significance. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 1998: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 179, No. 563. Bray. Wordwell.
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.