Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Castlequarter, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Castlequarter
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.69672, -8.68979
- SMR number
- RO032-035----
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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
Marked as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 50m) on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated on a gentle S-facing slope. This is a circular grass-covered area (diam. 42.4m N-S; 39.8m E-W) defined by an eroded scarp (H 0.2-0.7m) and a flat-bottomed fosse (Wth of top 6.4-7.2m generally to 12.5m at E; Wth of base 2.8-4m; D 0.1m at E to 0.8m at W). There is no identifiable original entrance, but it is bisected by an E-W field wall with a wall running N from it. Rath (032-034----) is c. 35m to the N.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.