Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Castlenode, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Castlenode
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.75909, -8.08157
- SMR number
- RO029-146001-
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
At the bottom of a N-facing slope. D-shaped grass-covered area (int. dims 28.7m WNW-ESE; 26.6m NNE-SSW) defined by an earth and stone bank (Wth 4-5.2m; H 0.2m) NW-E-SW which is best preserved (Wth 3.3m; H 0.5m) SE-SW. There is no visible fosse but there is an entrance gap (Wth 3m) at NE. The monument is cut by a NNE-SSW field wall at W and does not survive W of this feature. A rectangular house-site (RO029-146002-) (int. dims 10.9m NW-SE; 3.5m NE-SW) defined by the base of grass-covered stone walls (Wth 0.5-0.7m; H 0.2m) is c. 50m to the SE. Rath (RO029-076001-) is c. 200m to the SE.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.