Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Errick Beg, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Errick Beg
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.53149, -8.20969
- SMR number
- RO044-042----
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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 top of the NE-facing slope of a SE-NW spur. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 68m N-S; 64.3m E-W) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 4-5m; int. H 0.5-0.9m; ext. H 0.85-1.15m) surviving WSW-N-SE with some bushes and barely traceable as a low scarp down to the interior (H 0.1m) elsewhere. There is no visible fosse but there is an entrance (Wth 2.25m) at NNW while an E-W field wall across the interior has been removed. Raths (RO044-040----; RO044-041----) are c. 195m to the W and 110m to the NW respectively.
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.