Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Roxborough, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Roxborough
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.66251, -8.17235
- SMR number
- RO035-092002-
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
Marked as a oval embanked enclosure (ext. dims c. 70m N-S; c. 50m E-W) on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated on the summit of a broad hill in a karst landscape. Circular grass-covered area (diam. c. 67m N-S) defined by intermittently visible traces of a stone wall (Wth 2m; H 0.1-0.2m). It is bisected by a NNE-SSW field wall and within the field system (RO035-092003-). Cashel (RO035-092001-) is c. 130m to the WSW.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.