Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Mountpleasant, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Mountpleasant
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.74146, -8.14927
- SMR number
- RO029-145----
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 W-facing slope. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 58.7m E-W; 58.2m N-S) defined by a fosse (Wth of top 5.4-6m; Wth of base 2.5-3.5m; int. D 0.4-0.6m; ext. D 0.3-0.8m) WNW-E-SW, with slight traces of an inner bank (Wth 4m; int. H 0.1m; ext. H 0.6m) S-SW which is incorporated into a field bank SW-NW. There is no identifiable original entrance. It is truncated by a NNW-SSE field bank towards the perimeter at SW.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Monumental structureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosure - large enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.