Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Mountplunkett, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Mountplunkett
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.55655, -8.04568
- SMR number
- RO042-111001-
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
Towards the bottom of a SE-facing slope. Circular overgrown area with deciduous trees (diam. 36.7m NW-SE; 34.2m NE-SW) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (at NE: Wth 5m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 1m) separated by a complete rounded fosse (at NE: Wth of top 6.2m; Wth of base 1.1m ; D 1.15m) from an outer overgrown bank (at NE: Wth 5.8m; ext. H 0.95m) N-E-SSW. There is no identifiable original entrance. Rath (RO042-111002-) is c. 50m to the SW and rath (RO042-160----) is c. 100m to the WNW.
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.