Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Muff, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Muff
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.59597, -8.30509
- SMR number
- RO041-001----
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 subrectangular or D-shaped embanked enclosure (ext. dims c. 35m N-S; c. 35m E-W) on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated on a slight rise of a gentle S-facing slope. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 36.3m E-W; 34m N-S) defined by an earthen bank incorporated into a field bank and hedge (Wth 1.4-1.9m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 1.1-1.3m) SSW-N-E, which is reduced to a scarp (H 0.25-0.4m) elsewhere. There is no visible fosse or identifiable original entrance.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Promontory fort - inlandunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Mass-rockunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.