Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Drinagh, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Drinagh
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.73678, -7.98693
- SMR number
- RO030-014----
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 as a circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 45-50m) only on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated on a low rise. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 39m NE-SW), which is used as a feeding station and known locally as 'the fort', defined by a scarp (Wth 2.4m; H 0.7m) S-NW and a field bank and hedge N-SE.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Road - gravel/stone trackway - peatlandunder 1 mi
- Road - gravel/stone trackway - peatland1 mi
- Ringfort - rath1 mi
- Quarry2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.