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
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.58347, -8.16047
- SMR number
- RO042-014001-
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
Marked similarly on the 1837 and 1915 eds of the OS 6-inch map, and situated towards the top of the NNW-facing slope of a NE-SW ridge. This is an oval platform with a beech plantation (dims 46.5m WNW-ESE; 28.7m NNE-SSW) defined by a fosse (Wth of top 7m; Wth of base 1.1-1.4m; int. D 1.55-2.1m; ext. D 1.75-2.7m) and an outer bank (Wth 5.8-8.8m; H 0.3-0.4m). There is no identifiable original entrance and the inner face of the fosse has an almost vertical stone facing. There is spoil on the outer bank NE-SE and a pond outside it to the NW.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.