Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Skrine, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Skrine
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.54723, -8.17179
- SMR number
- RO041-088001-
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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 gentle NW-facing slope on a plateau. Oval area (dims 42.6m E-W; 32.9m N-S) defined by a grass-covered stone spread (Wth 2.1-4.3m; H 0.1-0.2m) with traces of inner and outer facing- stones (original Wth 1.9-2m) at NW. The perimeter is overlain by a field wall NW-E-SSE. There is a hut-site (RO041-088002-) (diam. c. 7m) defined by an arc of a stone spread inside the perimeter at N, and a relict field bank is attached to the perimeter at S. Rath (RO044-031----) is c. 160m to the SSE.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.