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
- 53.65247, -8.16011
- SMR number
- RO040-006----
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
Marked as a circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 30m) on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map and as an arc of field bank on the 1914 ed. Situated on a gentle NE-facing slope. An arc (C 25.6m) of an overgrown earthen bank (at S: Wth 4m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 0.9m) survives SE-W-NNW. There is no visible fosse or identifiable original entrance. In 1976 the bank survived SE-W-NE, with traces of an outer fosse at NE (SMR file). Rath (RO040-005----) is c. 90m to the NW.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 3 January 2013
References
SMR file - Sites and monuments record files in the National Monuments Service, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage.
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.