Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
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
- 53.65663, -8.18064
- SMR number
- RO039-019----
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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. 30m E-W; c. 20m N-S) only on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated on a rise in a low-lying landscape. Subcircular grass-covered area (dims 26.8m NW-SE; 22.5m NE-SW) defined by a curving bank (Wth 3-4.9m; int. H 0.15m; ext. H 0.15-0.3m) W-N and E-S, and by straight scarps N-E (H 0.15m) and S-W (H 0.45m). There is no visible fosse or identifiable original entrance. Rath (RO039-020----) is c. 150m to the ESE.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
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- Moated siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.