Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Sheegeeragh, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Sheegeeragh
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.75008, -8.23134
- SMR number
- RO028-137----
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 N-facing slope. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 51.2m NW-SE; 50.3m NE-SW) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 5.7-7.6m; int. H 0.8m at NW to 1.5m at SE; ext. H 2.2m at NW to 3.4m at NE), and a flat-bottomed fosse (Wth of top 8.3-9.2m; Wth of base 2.5-3.5m; D 0.7-1m) NNE-S-W. There is no identifiable original entrance. The interior is bisected by a relict NW-SE field bank, from which a field bank extends off to the SW, and there are three clearance cairns in the interior (max. ext. dims 68m NE-SW; 63m NW-SE).
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Megalithic tomb - passage tombunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - passage tombunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.