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Ringfort - rath

Grange (Athlone South By.),Lisnagavragh, County Roscommon, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Grange, Lisnagavragh, County Roscommon, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Grange (Athlone South By.),Lisnagavragh
County
Roscommon
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
53.50629, -8.17569
SMR number
RO044-074----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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 slight rise in an undulating landscape. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 48.2m NE-SW; c. 50m NW-SE) defined by a flat-topped earthen bank (Wth of base 4.6-5.4m; Wth of top 1m; int. H 0.8m; ext. H 1.4-1.8m) and a flat-bottomed fosse (Wth of top 5.2-6.5m; Wth of base 2m; D 0.5-0.7m) S-W-NE, but the perimeter is circumscribed by a field bank and hedge NW-NE. The monument is truncated by a NE-SW field wall and townland boundary with Grange at SE and the perimeter is visible as a low scarp here. However, NW of the townland boundary the ground had been cleared back (Wth 12m) and the material added to the centre forming a low D-shaped and grass-covered platform (dims 22m NE-SW; 12m NW-SE; H 0.2m normally to 0.8m at SE). There is an entrance (Wth 3.4m) at S which is probably modern. Rath (RO044-073----) is c. 190m to the SW.

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 24 August 2010

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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