Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Knockadangan, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knockadangan
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.56860, -8.19535
- SMR number
- RO041-139----
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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
In pasture. Reported by Jean-Charles Caillere. Visible on Google Earth aerial imagery (16-3-2011) as a circular enclosure (est. diam. c. 40m) defined by a low scarp. Also visible outside the enclosure at NW and ENE are the cropmarks of two possible, concentric fosses enclosing the site A ringfort (RO041-056----) lies c. 75m to the SW.
See attached image: RO041-139----_01 Google Earth aerial image, 16-3-2011.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 1 February 2023
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.