Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Dunmurraghoe, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dunmurraghoe
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.80542, -8.12998
- SMR number
- RO023-215----
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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
First identified by Steve Davis from LiDAR images (Pers. Com. 2015), it is located in pasture at the crest of a N-facing slope. This is a rectangular area (dims 32m E-W; 28m N-S) with rounded corners in meadow grass defined by two earthen banks and two fosses at E, S and W that morph into two scarps separated by a berm around on the N side (max. ext. dim. 56m N-S). An original entrance is not identified. The outer bank and fosse are largely absent on the W side, and the outer fosse at E is slightly truncated by a N-S field bank. At the S side a slight earthen bank (Wth 7m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 0.25m) is separated by a fosse (Wth of top 4.6m; ext. D 0.2m) from an outer bank (Wth 5.35m; ext. H 0.2m) and a second outer fosse (Wth of top 4.75m; ext. D 0.1m), but at the N side the scarp (Wth 4m; H 0.75m) defining the platform is separated by a berm (Wth 3.4m) from an outer scarp (Wth 3.5m; H 0.75m).
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload; 5 August, 2016
Nearby in the register
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Buildingunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.