Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Skrine, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Skrine
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.55422, -8.17253
- SMR number
- RO041-085001-
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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 a NW-facing slope. Described in 1982 as an oval area (dims. 41.5m NE-SW; 24.5m NW-SE) defined by the remains of a bank (Wth 2m; int. H 0.4-0.8m; ext. H 0.4-0.9m) incorporated into a field bank at E and with slight traces of a fosse (Wth 2m; D 0.2m) at N (SMR file). It is truncated at SW by a NW-SE field wall (L 15.5m). There is a local tradition of its use as a children's burial ground (RO041-085002-) (Gannon 1972).
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
References
Gannon, A. 1972 Archaeological survey of Roscommon. Unpublished typed index cards prepared for Roscommon County Council.
SMR file - Sites and monuments record files in the National Monuments Service, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage.
Nearby in the register
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Megalithic structureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.