Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Gortlustia, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gortlustia
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.76204, -8.04121
- SMR number
- RO029-045----
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
Marked only on the 1915 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated on a gentle E-facing slope. D-shaped grass-covered area (dims 28m WNW-ESE; 13m NNE-SSW) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 4m; int. H 0.2-0.6m; ext. H 0.9m) SE-SSW and by a fosse (Wth of top 4.3-5m; Wth of base 2.8-3m; D 0.3-0.4m) ESE-S-WNW. There is no identifiable entrance. The NE part of the monument is overlain by a WNW-ESE road, and St Patrick's Well (RO029-044001-) is c. 50m to the NW.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Penitential stationunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.