Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Promontory fort - inland
Shankoagh, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Shankoagh
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.71323, -8.44264
- SMR number
- RO034-002----
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 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Visible on aerial photographs (GSIAP: M 63-4), and situated on low-lying ground on the W bank of the N-S River Suck which loops sharply to the E around the monument. Grass-covered D-shaped area with some bushes (dims 50m N-S; 32.5m E-W) defined by the river on all sides except the W where there is an earthen bank (at N: Wth 4.2m; int. H 0.25m; ext. H 0.55m; at S: Wth 9m; int. H 0.55m; ext. H 1.75m) and a rounded fosse (Wth of top 8.6-11.2m; Wth of base 2.8-3.2m; D 0.6m). There is no identifiable original entrance and spoil from river drainage has been deposited on the river bank at N, while ther river is eroding the perimeter at E.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
References
GSIAP - Geological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1973). Geological Survey. Beggars Bush, Haddington Road, Dublin 4.
Nearby in the register
- Mill - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.