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
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.74459, -8.23799
- SMR number
- RO028-146----
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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
Marked as a circular feature (diam. c. 35m) on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated on a N-facing slope. Circular grass-covered platform (diam. 25m E-W) defined by a slight scarp (H 0.05-0.15m) NE-SE and SW-NW (H 0.55-0.7m). There is no visible fosse or identifiable original entrance, and it is overlain by a N-S field wall W of the centre. There is a clearance cairn (dims 4m N-S; 1.8m E-W; H 0.3m) inside the perimeter at SW. Rath (RO028-145----) is c. 60m to the NE and rath (RO028-147----) is c. 150m to the ESE.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.