Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Milltown (castlereagh By., Castleteheen Ed), County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Milltown (castlereagh By., Castleteheen Ed)
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.73955, -8.33643
- SMR number
- RO027-076----
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 the crest of a NW-SE ridge. D-shaped grass-covered area (dims c. 32m E-W; c. 28m N-S) defined by a slight scarp (H 0.4m) with slight traces of a fosse (Wth c. 7-10m). The monument is truncated at N by a WNW-ESE road bank (L 18m) and part of the interior is occupied by a cattle crush.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- House - 18th/19th centuryunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.