Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Spring Gardens, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Spring Gardens
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.69384, -8.67358
- SMR number
- RO032-046----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 level landscape. Subcircular overgrown area (dims 38m N-S; 34m E-W) defined by an overgrown and eroded earthen bank (Wth 6-8m; int. H 1-1.9m; ext. H 1.4-1.6m) E-S which is incorporated into a field bank S-NW and reduced to a scarp (H 0.6m) NW-E. There is no visible fosse or identifiable original entrance.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Quarryunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - wedge tombunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.