Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Castlestrange, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Castlestrange
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.59145, -8.26270
- SMR number
- RO041-128001-
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
On a SE-facing slope. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 32.4m NW-SE; 31.1m NE-SW) defined by a fosse (Wth of top 3.7-3.9m; Wth of base 1-1.5m; int. D 0.2-0.3m; ext. D 0.1m generally to 0.4m at NW), with slight traces of an inner bank (Wth 3.4m; int. H 0.1m) NW-NE. There is no identifiable original entrance, but there is a slight depression (dims 11m N-S; 5.5m E-W; D 0.3m), possibly a souterrain (RO041-128002-), inside the perimeter at W.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.