Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Bushfield, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Bushfield
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.72179, -8.31360
- SMR number
- RO028-197----
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
Towards the bottom of a S-facing slope, c. 60m N of an ESE-WNW stream. D-shaped grass-covered area (dims 48.3m E-W; 37.7m N-S) sloping down to the S (H 2m) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 2-3.4m; int. H 0.2-0.7m; ext. H 0.9-1.5m) and rounded fosse (Wth of base 2m; D 0.1-0.3m) W-N-E. It is truncated at S by an E-W field bank but the perimeter may survive as a low scarp (H 0.1m) S of this. There are entrances at NNW (Wth 1.7m) and E (Wth 3.3m), and the fosse is quarried NE-E. A low E-W bank (Wth 1.5m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 0.6m) N of the field bank is also secondary.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ceremonial enclosureunder 1 mi
- Barrow - bowl-barrowunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.