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
- 53.65415, -8.17504
- SMR number
- RO039-025----
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
In a low-lying landscape. Circular grass and rush-covered area (diam. 34.7m E-W) defined by an earthen bank and hedge (Wth 4-4.8m; int. H 0.2-0.3m; ext. H 0.55-0.85m) which does not survive S-WSW, and a rounded fosse (at W: Wth of top 5.6m; Wth of base 1.4m; D 0.25m) WSW-N. There is an entrance (Wth 1.4m), probably not original, at NNW, and a relict N-S field bank overlies the interior.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.