Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Athleague, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Athleague
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.56949, -8.26765
- SMR number
- RO041-045----
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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
Visible as a feature on aerial photographs (OSAP: 2, 4264-5), and situated on a rise of the S bank of a SE-NW section of the River Suck, which is immediately to the NE. D-shaped grass-covered area (dims c. 20m N-S; c. 20m E-W) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 4.5m; int. H 0.1m; ext. H 0.25m) and outer fosse (Wth of top 4.5m; D 0.15m) NE-S-SW. It is cut by the river at N and by a NNE-SSW field wall at W. There is no identifiable original entrance.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
References
OSAP - Ordnance Survey Aerial Photographs. Photographic collection. Ordnance Survey of Ireland. Dublin.
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Fordunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.