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
- 53.74548, -8.25134
- SMR number
- RO028-141----
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 gentle NW-facing slope. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 44.1m E-W; 43.7m N-S) defined by an earthen bank with some bushes (Wth 3.6-4.1m; int. H 0.2-0.45m; ext. H 0.6-1.3m), which has been truncated by a NW-SE stone wall at SW. There is no visible fosse, and a modernised entrance (Wth 4m) is at E. Barrow (RO028-142----) is c. 35m to the ESE, on the other side of an ENE-WSW road.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - mound barrowunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.