Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Glebe (athlone North By., Scregg Ed), County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Glebe (athlone North By., Scregg Ed)
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.57524, -8.08954
- SMR number
- RO042-042----
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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 gentle SW-facing slope. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 31.6m NE-SW; 29.8m NW-SE) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 4.5-6.4m; int. H 0.1-0.35m; ext. H 0.3-0.35m) with slight traces of a fosse (at SE: Wth of top 6m; Wth of base 1.5m; ext. D 0.25m). There is no identifiable original entrance. Rath (RO042-043----) is c. 105m to the SE.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Hearthunder 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.