Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Rathlena, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rathlena
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.69790, -8.66093
- SMR number
- RO032-042----
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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. 35m) on the 1837 and 1928 eds of the OS 6-inch map, and situated on a gentle E-facing slope in an undulating landscape. Subrectangular or D-shaped grass-covered area (dims 34m NE-SW; 32.5m NW-SE) defined by a curved earthen bank (at WNW: Wth 4.6m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 1.4m) WSW-NE and by straight field banks and walls with hedges at E, S and W. There is no visible fosse, and there is a modern entrance (Wth 3m) at NNE. Rath (RO032-041----) is c. 160m to the WNW.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.