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
- 53.65970, -8.16878
- SMR number
- RO039-024----
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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 S-facing slope. Oval grass-covered area (dims 75.8m N-S; 60m E-W) defined by an earthen bank and hedge (Wth 4.4-6.1m; int. H 0.15-0.6m; ext. H 0.4-1.2m), and traces of a rounded fosse (at N: Wth of top 6.1m; Wth of base 3.1m; D 0.25m at N) SW-N-E which is circumscribed by a field bank WSW-NNW. There are entrances at E (Wth 2m), WSW (Wth 2.4m) and S (Wth 2.8m), the last probably being the original. The possible rath (RO039-023----) is c. 110m to the S.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Cairn - clearance cairnunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.