Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Knockadangan, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knockadangan
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.56798, -8.19717
- SMR number
- RO041-056----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
Visible as a circular area defined by an earthen bank, with a fosse SE-SW and an entrance at SE on aerial photograph (CUCAP: APH 19), and situated on a S-facing slope. This is now a grass-covered platform (diam. 50m N-S; 48m E-W) defined by a scarp (H 0.1-0.8m) with the perimeter incorporated into a field bank SW-NW. Rath (RO041-057----) is c. 110m to the SSW.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
References
CUCAP - Cambridge University Collection of Aerial Photographs. Unit for Landscape Modelling, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge. See:https://www.cambridgeairphotos.com
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.