Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Promontory fort - inland
Muff, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Muff
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.60145, -8.29384
- SMR number
- RO041-002001-
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
At the E end of a low W-E spur, c. 150m W of a N-S section of the River Suck. Subrectangular grass-covered area (dims 34m N-S; 20.2m E-W) defined by a rounded fosse (Wth of top 8.6m; Wth of base 2m; int. D 1m; ext. D 1m) at W, and a fosse (Wth of top 5m; Wth of base 1.5m; int. D 0.5m; ext. D 0.4m) and outer bank (Wth 2.7m; ext. H 0.2m) at E. Elsewhere the fosse has been removed, leaving a scarp at N (H 0.7m) and S (H 1.1m). Castle (RO041-002002-) is in the interior.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.