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
- 53.70567, -8.37982
- SMR number
- RO034-012----
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
On a gentle SW-facing slope. Subcircular grass-covered area (dims 38.2m N-S; 34.3m E-W) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 2.7-3.2m; int. H 0.2-0.3m; ext. H 0.45-1m) WSW-N-ESE which is reduced to a scarp (H 0.8m) elsewhere. There is a rounded fosse (Wth of top 4.5-5.8m; Wth of base 1.4-2.7m; D 0.1-0.25m) NW-E-SSW which has been enlarged by a quarry at SW, but the fosse fades away SW-NW (max. ext. dim. 49m N-S). There is a causeway (Wth 2m; H 0.2m) at ESE.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Battlefieldunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 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.