Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Dundermot, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dundermot
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.69376, -8.44655
- SMR number
- RO034-025----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1857 · Ireland (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
On a SW-facing slope overlooking a NW-SE section of the River Suck, c. 25m to the SW. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 59.4m N-S) with a few trees defined by a rounded fosse (Wth of top 6.4-7.7m; Wth of base 2-3m; int. D 0.8-1.5m; ext. D 1.2-1.8m), and an outer bank (Wth 4.2-6.2m; ext. H 0.3-1.7m) WSW-N-SSE, the river or the slope having removed the bank elsewhere (max. ext. diam. 79m N-S). There is an entrance (Wth 5.4m) and a modern causeway (Wth 2.6m; H 0.45m) of limestone blocks at N. There are traces of a second outer fosse (Wth of base 3.4m; D 0.3m) and external bank (Wth 3.3m; ext. H 0.25m) NE-ENE.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- House - 18th/19th centuryunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Bridgeunder 1 mi
- Bridgeunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.