Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Attiknockan, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Attiknockan
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.54335, -8.21785
- SMR number
- RO044-019----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
On a shoulder at the W end of a WNW-ESE ridge which slopes away to the W and N. Subcircular grass-covered area (dims 45.5m N-S; 38m E-W) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 3-5m; int. H 0.1m at NNW (downslope) to 0.3-0.6m generally; ext. H 0.15-0.3m E-S to 0.6-1.05m generally) and hedge, with a rounded fosse (Wth of top 5.2m; Wth of base 1.5m; D 0.35m) SSW-NW. There is an entrance (Wth 3m) at SSW, and the monument is surrounded by field banks E-S-W. It had been removed by 2005 (OSAP).
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
References
OSAP - Ordnance Survey Aerial Photographs. Photographic collection. Ordnance Survey of Ireland. Dublin.
Nearby in the register
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.