Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Glenmore (castlereagh By.), County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Glenmore (castlereagh By.)
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.68313, -8.65569
- SMR number
- RO032-061----
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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 N-S esker ridge which has been quarried to N, E and S of the site. An arc (C 6m) of bank (Wth 4m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 1.9m) survives at SW with a scarp S-SW of a circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m), the interior of which has been damaged by quarrying or obscured by spoil. A NW-SE field wall overlies the S part of the site.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.