Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure - large enclosure
Rosmoylan, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rosmoylan
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.63554, -8.38270
- SMR number
- RO038-006----
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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 NE-facing slope of a low WNW-ESE ridge, c. 1.5 km W of the River Suck. Subcircular grass-covered area (dims 89m E-W; 79m N-S) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (Wth 6.1-8.5m; int. H 0.5-0.6m; ext. H 0.65-1.8m) which is absent WNW-NNW, separated by a rounded, overgrown fosse (Wth of top 9.2-12.4m; Wth of base 2-4.6m; D 0.5-1.65m) from an outer bank (Wth 11.6m; H 0.5m) NE-S which is incorporated into a field bank NW-NE, and S-SW but is absent elsewhere. The entrance (Wth 4m) and causeway (Wth 7m) are at SSW (max. ext. dims 115m E-W; 100m N-S).
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.