Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Hilltop enclosure
Rathnalulleagh, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rathnalulleagh
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.71771, -8.34145
- SMR number
- RO034-016----
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 S-facing slope of a broad WNW-ESE ridge. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 110m N-S; 106m E-W) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 2.7-3.75m; int. H 0.25-0.4m; ext. H 0.55m at W to 1.3m at ESE) with some scrub W-N-SSE which is reduced to a scarp (H 0.5-1m) elsewhere, and traces of a fosse (Wth of base 1.7m; D 0.2m) SW-WSW. There is an entrance (Wth 2.8m) at ESE and part of the bank has been levelled at N (L 10m). The interior is overlain by the remains of a N-S field bank, just E of the centre.
See the attached aerial view taken from the E.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rath1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.