Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Knockmurry, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knockmurry
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.75517, -8.44014
- SMR number
- RO027-004----
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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
Marked as a circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 35m) on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and as a D-shaped feature (dims c. 30m x c. 30m) on the 1927 ed. Situated in pasture on the crest of a NW-SE ridge, it is not visible at ground level in pasture. Test excavations (99E0190) immediately to the E failed to recover any evidence of an antiquity (Walsh 2000e).
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
References
Walsh, G. 2000e Knockmurry. No archaeological significance. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 1999: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 270-71, No. 772. Bray. Wordwell.
Nearby in the register
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.