Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Scregg (athlone North By.), County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Scregg (athlone North By.)
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.54801, -8.09767
- SMR number
- RO042-094001-
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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 the crest of a NW-SE ridge overlooking a NW-SE valley to the SW. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 34.2m NNE-SSW; 31.7m WNW-ESE) defined by an earth and stone bank (at NNE: Wth 4.7m; int. H 0.45m; ext. H 0.8m) which is largely reduced to a scarp (at SSW: H 2m). There is no visible fosse or identifiable original entrance, but this monument it is overlain by a NW-SE field wall towards the perimeter at NE and the monument itself overlies the S portion of cashel (RO042-094002-). Rath (RO042-095----) is c. 155m to the E.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Field boundaryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.