Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Promontory fort - inland
Beagh, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Beagh
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.73370, -8.47116
- SMR number
- RO026-054----
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
Visible on aerial photographs (GSIAP: M 63-4), and situated on level ground on the E bank of the N-S River Suck where the river turns E. D-shaped grass-covered area (int. dims 27.3m N-S; 22m E-W) defined by a fosse (Wth of base 3.5-4m; int. D 0.2-0.3m; ext. D 0.2-0.6m) separated by an earthen bank (Wth 5.9-6.4m; ext. H 0.5-0.7m) from a second fosse (Wth of base 3.8-4m; ext. D 0.5m) NW-S. There is a second outer bank (Wth 4.9-5.9m; ext. H 0.4-0.5m) and a third outer fosse (Wth of base 3.9-4.3m; ext D. 0.4-0.6m) NW-E-S, while the other sides are formed by the river at W and S. There is no identifiable original entrance (max. ext. dims 48m E-W; 79m N-S). It was planted with forestry since 2005. Enclosure (RO026-033----) is immediately across the river (Wth c. 20m) to the S.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
References
GSIAP - Geological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1973). Geological Survey. Beggars Bush, Haddington Road, Dublin 4.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.