Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Moanvane, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Moanvane
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.70751, -8.66494
- SMR number
- RO032-018----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
On a shelf of a slight S-facing slope on a broad plateau. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 29.2m N-S; 27.4m E-W) defined by a flat-topped earthen bank (Wth of base 3.5-5m; Wth of top 1.6-2.3m; int. H 0.1-0.6m; ext. H 1.1-1.3m), with faint traces of a fosse (Wth of base 1.6m; D 0.1m) ESE-SSW. There is no evidence of an original entrance.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.