Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Newtown Farragher, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Newtown Farragher
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.70827, -8.26347
- SMR number
- RO035-006----
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 SE-facing slope. Circular grass-covered area (diam. c. 45m) defined by a flat-topped earthen bank (Wth of base 4.5-4.8m; Wth of top 1m; int. H 0.55m; ext. H 0.5m at N to 1.8m at W) and a rounded fosse (Wth of top 4.5-5m; Wth of base 2.3m; D 0.45-1m) SW-N-NE, and by a scarp (H 1-1.5m) elsewhere. There is no identifiable original entrance, and a NNW-SSE field wall overlies the W part of the monument.
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.