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
- 53.66694, -8.34122
- SMR number
- RO034-088----
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 fairly level landscape. Circular grass-covered area (diam. c. 38m NNE-SSW; 36.5m WNW-ESE) defined by a scarp (H 0.3-1m). It is slightly truncated by a N-S field bank at W, and the perimeter has been quarried at NE and SW. There is no visible fosse or identifiable original entrance. Rath (RO034-089----) is c. 100m to the ESE.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.