Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Scregg (athlone North By.), County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Scregg (athlone North By.)
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.54824, -8.09779
- SMR number
- RO042-094002-
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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. D-shaped grass-covered area (int. dims c. 26m E-W; c. 20m N-S) defined by a grass-covered stone spread (Wth c. 2m) with some facing-stones NE-SE, and by a slight scarp SW-NE. It is cut by the perimeter of rath (RO042-094001-) SE-SW and overlain by a NW-SE field wall, from which a field wall extends off to the NE. Rath (RO042-095----) is c. 155m to the E.
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
- Field boundaryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.