Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Rahardagh, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rahardagh
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not inidcated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.73495, -8.34229
- SMR number
- RO027-046001-
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 as a rectangular feature on aerial photographs (GSIAP: M, 65-6), and situated on a broad NW-SE ridge. Rectangular grass-covered area (dims 33.5m NE-SW; 30.8m NW-SE) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 2m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 0.4m) at NE and SE and by an earthen bank (Wth 4.5m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 1.3m) and outer fosse (Wth of top 4.7-7.5m; Wth of base 2-2.5m; D 0.2m) at NW and SW. There is no identifiable original entrance. Traces of rectangular fields (RO027-046002-) (dims c. 40m x c. 40m) can be seen to the E and 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
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- House - 18th/19th centuryunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.