Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Mote Demesne, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Mote Demesne
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.59503, -8.13919
- SMR number
- RO042-005----
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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 level landscape at the bottom of a N-facing slope. D-shaped area within a coniferous forest (dims 43.3m NNE-SSW; 32.8m WNW-ESE) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 4.1-5.3m; int. H 0.45-1.05m; ext. H 1.2-1.65) separated by a fosse (Wth of top 4.5-4.8m; Wth of base 1.1-1.5m; D 0.9-1m) from a slight outer bank (Wth 3.2-3.9m; H 0.1-0.55m). The entrance through the inner (Wth 1.2m) and outer (Wth 6.3m) banks and a causeway (Wth 3.5m) are at ESE, but the perimeter is truncated by a NW-SW field bank at NW (max. ext. dim. 58.8m NNE-SSW).
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.