Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Knockskehan, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knockskehan
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.53683, -8.01730
- SMR number
- RO046-001----
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
On a hilltop overlooking Lough Ree, c. 850m to the E. Circular overgrown area (diam. 35.7m ENE-WSW) defined by a grass and scrub-covered scarp (H 0.9m at E to 1.6m at W) which is surrounded by a drystone field wall. There is no visible fosse or identifiable original entrance. At the centre is a modern circular drystone-built structure (int. diam. c. 3m) with a sunken path approaching it from the E.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- House - 18th/19th centuryunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.