Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ardlagheen More Or Highlake, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ardlagheen More Or Highlake
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.71363, -8.30830
- SMR number
- RO035-003001-
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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 gentle NW-facing slope. D-shaped overgrown area (dims 26.8m N-S; c. 20m E-W) defined by an earth and stone bank (at N: Wth 7.6m; int. H 0.5-1m; ext. H 1m generally to 1.7m at N) which survives NNW-E-SSW, the perimeter being quarried back elsewhere. The rounded fosse (Wth of top 7.6m; Wth of base 2.4m; D 0.5m) survives NNW-N, but NNE-ENE it is re-cut and ESE-SE it is separated from the bank by a berm (Wth 4m). The monument was regarded locally as a children's burial ground (RO034-003003-), and uncremated bone (RO035-003002-) was recovered from it (Gannon 1972).
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
References
Gannon, A. 1972 Archaeological survey of Roscommon. Unpublished typed index cards prepared for Roscommon County Council.
Nearby in the register
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Burialunder 1 mi
- Quarryunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.