Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ardmullan, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ardmullan
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.49548, -8.07870
- SMR number
- RO045-184----
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
Towards the bottom of a NW-facing slope of Ardmullan Hill overlooking the SE corner of Lough Funshinagh, a large turlough c. 450m to the NW. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 34.3m NNW-SSE; 31.3m ENE-WSW) defined by an earthen bank with bushes (at SSE: Wth 5.7m; int. H 0.7m; ext. H 1.05m) and an outer fosse (at SSE: Wth of top 4.3m; Wth of base 0.7m; D 0.3m) ESE-WNW, and a less substantial bank (at NNW: Wth 4m; int. H 0.15m; ext. H 0.85m) elsewhere N of a WNW-ESE field bank which bisects the interior. There is no identifiable original entrance.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.