Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ashpark, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ashpark
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.70495, -8.38765
- SMR number
- RO034-011----
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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
On a gentle NE-facing slope of a slight NW-SE ridge. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 30.4 E-W; c. 30m E-W) defined by a slight earthen bank (Wth 1.9-2.3m; int. H 0.35-0.4m; ext. H 0.45-1.3m) S-NNW, which is reduced to a scarp (H 0.4m) elsewhere. There is no visible fosse and the two entrances at SW (Wth 1.8m; 2m) are unlikely to be original. The perimeter has been quarried N-NE and there is a grass-covered quarry trench (dims 10m E-W; 3.5m N-S; D 0.5m) breaching the perimeter at S.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Battlefieldunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.