Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Altore, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Altore
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.70358, -8.68153
- SMR number
- RO032-065----
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
At the crest of the SE end of a low NW-SE rise. Oval grass-covered area (dims c. 50m NE-SW; c. 43m NW-SE) defined by a scarp (H 0.6-1m), with traces of a bank (Wth 4m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 1.1m) at E. It is bisected by a NE-SW field bank. There is no identifiable original entrance and traces of a fosse at N and ESE-WSW noted in 1978 (SMR file) can no longer be seen.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
References
SMR file - Sites and monuments record files in the National Monuments Service, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage.
Nearby in the register
- Megalithic tomb - wedge tombunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.