Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Pollanarroo, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Pollanarroo
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.68832, -8.69397
- SMR number
- RO032-052----
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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
At the crest of the S-facing slope of an E-W ridge. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 30.1m E-W; 27.9m N-S) defined by a flat-topped earthen bank (Wth of base 3-4m; Wth of top 1.6-2m; int. H 0.4-0.9m; ext. H 1.1-1.7m) which is reduced to a scarp (H 1.1m) SW-WNW. There is no visible fosse or identifiable original entrance, but a collapsed E-W field wall overlies the interior at S. Rath (RO032-053----) is c. 150m to the SSE.
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
- Megalithic tomb - wedge tombunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.