Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Castlequarter, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Castlequarter
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.69434, -8.69155
- SMR number
- RO032-037001-
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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 gentle E-facing slope in an undulating landscape. Grass-covered subcircular area (dims. 43.6m N-S; 38.7m E-W) defined by an earthen bank (at S: Wth 2.7m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 1m) ESE-SSW and by a scarp (H 1.1m) ENE-ESE where there is a modern entrance (Wth 8m). Elsewhere the bank has been straightened out in sections and incorporated into field banks (Wth 1.5-2m; H 0.2-1m). There is an entrance (Wth 1.1m) which is probably not original at SSW, but there is no evidence of a fosse. A short bank (L 6m; Wth 2m; H 0.5m) in the N interior may be related to the local tradition of a children's burial ground (RO032-037002-) (Gannon 1972).
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
References
Gannon, A. 1972 Archaeological survey of Roscommon. Unpublished typed index cards prepared for Roscommon County Council.
Nearby in the register
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.