Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Jamestown, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Jamestown
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.49835, -8.23090
- SMR number
- RO044-081001-
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
Towards the bottom of a N-facing slope. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 56m E-W; 55m N-S) defined by a flat-topped earth and stone bank (Wth of base 4.5-7m; Wth of top 1-2m; int. H 0.9-1.15m; ext. H 1.7-2.5m) and hedge, and a rounded fosse surviving NNE-SE (Wth of top 7m; Wth of base 3m; D 0.8m) and SW-NW (Wth of top 7m; Wth of base 3.5m; D 0.25m). There is a house platform (RO044-081002-) (dims 8.5m E-W; 5.5m N-S; H 0.3m) at the centre and another (RO044-081003-) (dims 6.4m NE-SW; 4.4m NW-SE) defined by a fosse (Wth 1.5m; D 0.2m) inside the perimeter at SE. There is a widened entrance (Wth 4m) at NW.
See the attached aerial image taken from the SW
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 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.