Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Highbog, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Highbog
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.53285, -8.13450
- SMR number
- RO045-028----
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
On a gentle SW-facing slope. Subcircular grass-covered area (dims 43.8m NE-SW; 37.7m NW-SE) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (at NE: Wth 7.4m; int. H 1.1m; ext. H 2.3m) with inner facing-stones at SW separated by a fosse (at NE: Wth of top 6.3m; Wth of base 2.1m; ext. D 1.6m), which is backfilled ENE-ESE and scarcely visible SSW-WSW, from an outer bank (at NE: Wth 4.6m; ext. H 0.3m) NW-E-SSW. The entrance (Wth 4.5m) and causeway (Wth 5.2m) are at SE. There is a grass-covered wall foundation (L 8m N-S) in the SW quadrant.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Sweathouseunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Structureunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.