Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Earthwork
Ardmullan, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ardmullan
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.49451, -8.07332
- SMR number
- RO045-186----
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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
Visible as a circular feature (diam. c. 30m) on aerial photographs (GSIAP: M 469-8), and situated towards the top of a N-facing slope of Ardmullan Hill. Subrectangular grass-covered platform (dims of top 12m E-W; 9m N-S; dims of base 22m E-W; 21m N-S; H 0.35-0.45m E-S to 1.15-2m W-N) separated by a berm (Wth 17-20m) from slight traces of a low bank curving E-S. Rath (RO045-187----) is c. 160m to the ESE.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
References
GSIAP - Geological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1973). Geological Survey. Beggars Bush, Haddington Road, Dublin 4.
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 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.