Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Bredagh (athlone South By., Rockhill Ed), County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Bredagh (athlone South By., Rockhill Ed)
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.51554, -8.05840
- SMR number
- RO045-147----
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. 25m E-W; c. 20m N-S) on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map and as a circular hachured feature (ext. diam. c. 40m) on the 1915 ed., it is situated towards the bottom of an E-facing slope. This is a circular grass-covered platform (diam. c. 22.5m NNE-SSW; c. 21m WNW-ESE) defined by a slight scarp (H c. 0.2m). Rath (RO045-112----) is c. 200m to the NNE and rath (RO045-148----) is c. 80m to the ESE.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.