Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Skrine, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Skrine
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.56258, -8.17378
- SMR number
- RO041-065----
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
Towards the bottom of the E-facing slope of Skrine Hill. Oval grass and scrub-covered are (dims 35.6m NW-SE; 22.5m NE-SW) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 3.5-5.6m; int. H 0.5-0.6m; ext. H 0.3-0.5m) SW-N, a drystone field wall and hedge N-SE and a field wall and hedge S-SW. There is no visible fosse or identifiable original entrance. A large spoil mound has been added outside the perimeter SW-N.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Quarryunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Cairn - burial cairnunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.