Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Creemully And Aghagad Beg, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Creemully And Aghagad Beg
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.61158, -8.31250
- SMR number
- RO039-057----
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
Towards the top of a NW-facing slope. Circular overgrown area (diam. 50.3m N-S; 49.6m E-W) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (Wth 3.2-4.8m; int. H 0.1-0.25m; ext. H 1-1.1m) and outer rounded fosse (at NW: Wth of top 4.4m; Wth of base 2m; D 0.15m), which has been truncated slightly by an E-W field bank at S, while the bank is reduced to a scarp (H 1.05m) and the fosse is missing NNW-NE. There are entrances at NNW (Wth 2.4m) and NNE (Wth 2.2m).
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 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.