Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Toberavaddy, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Toberavaddy
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.58792, -8.29426
- SMR number
- RO041-028----
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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
On a WNW-ESE ridge in a loop of the River Suck which lies c. 500m to the NE and SW. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 50.8m N-S; 46.4m E-W) defined by an earthen bank with some bushes (Wth 6.5-9m; int. H 0.25m at N to 1.55m at S; ext. H 1.25m at N to 2.1m at S) which has been quarried WNW-NNW and removed NE-E. There is no visible fosse, but the entrance (Wth 3.4m) is at SE.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosure - large enclosureunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.