Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Inchiroe And Gortfree, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Inchiroe And Gortfree
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.49440, -8.08959
- SMR number
- RO045-175----
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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 rise in an undulating landscape, c. 350m S of the SE angle of Lough Funshinagh, a large turlough. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 41.6m ENE-WSW; 40.6m NNW-SSE) defined by a poached earthen bank with a whitethorn hedge (Wth 5.3-6.2m; int. H 0.3-0.8m; ext. H 0.75-0.8m), and an outer fosse (at WSW: Wth of top 5.5m; Wth of base 3m; ext. D 0.2m) S-W. There is an entrance (Wth 3.4m) at E.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Cairn - clearance cairnunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.