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
- 53.66911, -8.33917
- SMR number
- RO034-086----
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
At the E end of a low E-W ridge, on the NE-facing slope. Subcircular grass-covered area (dims 51.8m N-S; 42.6m E-W) defined by a grass-covered earthen bank (Wth 4.5-5.6m; int. H 0.25-0.45m; ext. H 1.2-1.5m), with a rounded fosse (Wth of top 5.7-6.4m; Wth of base 1.9-2.2m; D 0.15-0.3m) SW-NNE. The monument is overlain by a N-S field wall E of the centre, and the perimeter E of this is reduced to a scarp (H 1.2m). There is no identifiable original entrance.
See the attached aerial images from W (002) and SW (003).
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.