Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Oran, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Oran
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.67381, -8.34222
- SMR number
- RO034-080008-
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
Towards the bottom of a SW-facing slope at the SE end of a broad NW-SE ridge. This is a D-shaped grass-covered area (dims 33.6m NNE-SSW; 26m WNW-ESE) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 2-2.3m; int. H 0.2-0.3m; ext. H 0.7-0.9m) SW-N-NE, and by straight scarps at E (H 0.5m) at E-S. There is an outer grass-covered fosse (Wth 2-3m; D 0.1-0.3m) which probably incorporates a stream from the holy well (RO034-080009-) which was at the NE angle of the rath and which is replaced by a pump-house. Archaeological testing (01E0422) c. 50m to the N failed to produce any related archaeological features (Read 2003c).
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
References
Read, C. 2003c Oran, Donamon: no archaeological significance. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2001: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 355, No. 1117. Bray. Wordwell.
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Memorial stoneunder 1 mi
- Crossunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.