Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Demesne, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Demesne
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.77059, -8.49868
- SMR number
- RO026-026----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
Marked as a circular copse (diam c. 45m) on the 1837 and 1929 eds of the OS 6-inch map, and situated at the SE end of a low NW-SE ridge. Subcircular grass-covered area (dims 37.7m E-W; 32m N-S) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 3.4-3.8m; int. H 0.2-0.6m; ext. H 1-1.4m) NW-E-WSW and a scarp (H 1.2m) elsewhere. There is no visible fosse or identifiable original entrance. A raised rectangular platform (dims 10m x 10m; H 0.1m at S to 1.5m at E) just SW of the centre is a golfing tee and a bunker (Wth 4m) has been dug inside the perimeter at E.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.