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
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.65598, -8.17836
- SMR number
- RO039-020----
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 slight NE-facing slope. Subcircular grass-covered platform (dims 31.7m E-W; 25m N-S; H 0.35-0.45m) defined by a fosse (Wth of top 4.6-6.4m; Wth of base 1.8-3.1m; D 0.1-0.25m) NE-S-W, and by a scarp (H 1m) elsewhere. Rath (RO039-019----) is c. 150m to the WNW and rath (RO039-021----) is c. 190m to the NE.
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
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.