Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Roxborough, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Roxborough
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.66211, -8.17542
- SMR number
- RO035-092001-
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 NW-facing slope of a karst landscape. Circular grass-covered area (diam. c. 45m) defined by a stone-covered scarp (H 0.5m). 16m to the NW is a rectangular house site (RO035-092004-) (int. dims 6m NE-SW; 6m NW-SE) defined by a grass-covered stone spread, with an entrance (Wth 1.4m) towards the S end of the SE wall. Cashel (RO035-092002-) is c. 130m to the ENE.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.