Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Castleplunket, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Castleplunket
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.75829, -8.33626
- SMR number
- RO027-056001-
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
On a rise of a broad plateau. Raised D-shaped grass-covered area (dims 49m ENE-WSW; 34m NNW-SSE) defined by a scarp (H 1.3-1.8m), with slight traces of a bank (Wth 4m; int. H 0.3m) NNE-E and WSW-WNW, separated by a rounded fosse (Wth of top 6-7.2m; Wth of base 2-3.5m; D 0.2-0.9m) from an outer bank (Wth 3m; H 0.2m) which only survives NNE-ENE and SSW-SW. The entrance ramp (Wth 1.3m) and causeway (Wth 4m) are at W. The site is truncated by a quarry at N (L 30m), and it is surrounded by a field bank SW-N-SE. The later field system (RO027-056002-) is c. 100m to the NE.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- House - 17th centuryunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.