Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ganaveens, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ganaveens
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.54183, -8.15577
- SMR number
- RO045-005----
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 top of a SE-facing slope of Lackan Hill. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 42m NE-SW; 41m NW-SE) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 4-4.5m; int. H 0.95-1.2m; ext. H 2.3-2.6m) with some scrub and inner facing-stones separated by a fosse (Wth of top 5.5-6.4m; Wth of base 2-2.3m; D 1.2-1.6m) from an outer grass-covered bank (Wth 3.4-3.9m; ext. H 0.65-0.8m) with some outer facing-stones, which is incorporated into a field bank ENE-SSW. There is a modern entrance at SSW, but the original entrance (Wth 2.4m) and causeway (Wth 4.4m) are at SE (max. ext. diam. 59.3m NE-SW).
See the attached aerial view taken from the W
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Windmillunder 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.