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Ringfort - rath

Stonepark South, County Roscommon, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Stonepark South, County Roscommon, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Stonepark South
County
Roscommon
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Embanked enclosure
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
53.70194, -8.65765
SMR number
RO032-023001-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

On a gentle S-facing slope towards the E edge of a plateau. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 38.5m WNW-ESE; 37.4m NNE-SSW) defined by a rounded earthen bank (Wth 4.6m at S to 8.5m at E; int. H 0.6 at W to 1.6m at N; ext. H 1.6-2m) separated by a rounded fosse (Wth of top 7-10.2m; Wth of base 2.6-3.5m; D 0.4m at N to 1.8m at S) from an outer bank (Wth 6.4-9.2m; ext. H 0.8-1.1m) which survives only NNE-E-SW. An outer fosse and third bank are visible on aerial photographs (CUCAP: BDK 84-6) from the 1970s NW-E, being incorporated into a field bank SW-NW, but this feature does not survive.
The entrance through the inner bank (Wth 3m) and a causeway (Wth 3.4m) are at E, but the gap in the middle bank is altered. The grass-covered foundations (Wth 1.5m; H 0.5m) of a rectangular house (RO032-023003-) (int. dims 4m x 3m) abut the inside of the inner bank at NE, and the interior is overlain by the remnants of a field system. There was a rectangular enclosure or annexe (RO032-023002-) (dims c. 30m N-S; c. 30m E-W) S of the middle bank defined at the E, S and W sides by an earthen bank and outer fosse (CUCAP: BDK 84-6), but this has been removed.

See the attached aerial images from S (001) and E (002).

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 24 August 2010

References

CUCAP - Cambridge University Collection of Aerial Photographs. Unit for Landscape Modelling, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge. See:https://www.cambridgeairphotos.com

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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