Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Castlestrange, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Castlestrange
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.59572, -8.25891
- SMR number
- RO041-129----
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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
At the bottom of an E-facing slope. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 36.8m E-W; 36.5m N-S) defined by a slight earthen bank (Wth 4.3m; int. H 0.1m; ext. H 0.3m) at S and a complete rounded fosse (Wth of top 6.7-9.2m; Wth of base 2.7-4.7m; int. D 0.3-0.5m; ext. D 0.1-0.2m). There is no identifiable original entrance and the interior is overlain by an E-W field bank and drain just S of the centre.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 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.