Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Moneymore, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Moneymore
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.58232, -8.12379
- SMR number
- RO042-028----
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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 as a D-shaped embanked enclosure (dims c. 30m N-S; c. 25m E-W) cut by a N-S field bank at E on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and as a D-shaped feature (dims c. 35m N-S; c. 35m E-W) truncated by field banks at N and E on the 1915 ed. It is situated on a slightly undulating landscape, but is not visible at ground level in reclaimed pasture. Rath (RO042-027----) is immediately to the NE, and rath (RO042-029----) is c. 140m to the S.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.