Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
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Grange (athlone South By.), County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Grange (athlone South By.)
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.51615, -8.15491
- SMR number
- RO045-121001-
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
In a broad, low-lying basin. Circular grass-covered mound (diam. of base 15m NW-SE; diam. of top 5.7m NW-SE; H 4.1-4.3m) with some bushes, which has a berm (Wth 2.4m) at its base at SE. The mound is separated by a wet, rush-covered fosse (Wth of base 7m at SE to 11.6m at NW; ext. D 1.4-1.9m) from an earthen bank (Wth 10-11.4m; ext. H 1.45-2m). A field drain and outer field bank surround the perimeter SSW-NNE, and a field bank overlies the perimeter E-S (max. ext. diam. 59.5m NW-SE).
See the attached aerial image taken from the NNW
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- House - 17th centuryunder 1 mi
- Walled gardenunder 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.