Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Gortaganny (athlone North By.),roverkilly, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gortaganny (athlone North By.),roverkilly
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.53720, -8.17336
- SMR number
- RO044-028----
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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
Depicted only on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map as a circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 65m), and situated on the crest of a low N-S rise on a SW-facing slope. D-shaped grass-covered area (dims 55m NNW-SSE; 23m ENE-WSW) defined by an earth and stone bank (at W: Wth 3m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 0.7m) S-NW reduced to a scarp NW-N and backing onto a NNW-SSE field wall and townland boundary with Roverkilly at E, but it is not visible E of this feature. There is no visible fosse or identifiable original entrance. Rath (RO044-029----) is c. 170m to the NE.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.