Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Grange (athlone South By.), County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Grange (athlone South By.)
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.51042, -8.16682
- SMR number
- RO045-122----
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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 a circular feature only on the 1915 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated on a rise in an undulating landscape. Subcircular grass-covered area (diam. 33m N-S) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 2.2m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 0.75m) and slight traces of a fosse (Wth of base 2.7m) SSE-SW and NNW-NNE. Elsewhere the perimeter has been disturbed by quarrying. There is no identifiable original entrance. Rath (RO044-075----) is c. 200m to the SSW.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.