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
- Not inidcated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.55525, -8.10952
- SMR number
- RO042-163001-
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
On a shelf at the bottom of a N-facing slope, overlooking a W-E stream at a point where it turns N. Subcircular grass-covered area (dims 41.3m NW-SE; 36.5m NE-SW) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 4-5.5m; int. H 0.2-0.3m; ext. H 0.2-0.6m). There is no visible fosse or identifiable original entrance, and the perimeter is quarried S-W. A field bank of field system (RO042-163002-) is attached to the perimeter at NE.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Memorial stoneunder 1 mi
- Sheela-na-gig (present location)under 1 mi
- Sheela-na-gig (present location)under 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.