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
- 53.49322, -8.22710
- SMR number
- RO044-082001-
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
At the crest of the NE-facing slope of a SE-NW spur. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 51.5m NE-SW; 47.2m NW-SE) defined by an earth and stone bank (Wth 4-7m; int. H 0.5-0.8m; ext. H 1.7-2m) with some bushes and a rounded fosse (Wth of top 5.4-6.8m; Wth of base 2-3.2m; D 0.4-0.9m). There is an entrance (Wth 1.3m) and causeway at SSE. An outer bank (Wth 2m; ext. H 0.2m) SW-N-E departs from the outer edge of the fosse at E to join the outer bank of rath (RO044-082003-) which is 5m to the SE. There is a quarry (dims 18m NW-SE; 13m NE-SW; D 1.4m) outside the fosse at SW (max. ext. dims 66m NE-SW; 59m NW-SE).
See the attached aerial view taken from the W with this monument in the foreground.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.