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
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.53392, -8.12899
- SMR number
- RO045-030----
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
Marked as an oval embanked enclosure (ext. dims c. 50m N-S; c. 40m E-W) on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated on a gentle E-facing slope. This is a subcircular grass and scrub-covered but poached area (dims 41.1m NE-SW; 36.4m NW-SE) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 4-5.5m; int. H 0.7-0.75m; ext. H 1.7m) with coniferous trees and scrub, and an outer fosse (Wth of top 5.2m; Wth of base 3m; D 1.3m) WSW-NNW which is replaced by a lane N-E-S and widened into a pond S-SW. There is a modern entrance at SSW.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Sweathouseunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Architectural fragmentunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.