Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Manor, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Manor
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.74703, -8.22958
- SMR number
- RO028-139----
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 level landscape. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 44.3m N-S; 42m E-W) defined by an earthen bank with some bushes (Wth 4-5.8m; int. H 0.4-1.2m; ext. H 1.5-1.8m) which is poached, and a flat-bottomed fosse (Wth of top 5-5.8m; Wth of base 1.5-2m; D 0.4-0.6m) which is slightly truncated by a NE-SW field wall at NW. The entrance (Wth 2.1m) and causeway (Wth 2.3m) are at SE (ext. diam. 58.2m E-W; 57.7m N-S). Rath (RO028-140----) is c. 50m to the SE.
See the attached image taken from the NE.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Cairn - clearance cairnunder 1 mi
- Barrow - mound barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.