Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Cronin, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cronin
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.47817, -8.20904
- SMR number
- RO047-014001-
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 gentle SE-facing slope. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 33.5m ENE-WSW; 30.5m NNW-SSE) defined by a grass-covered earthen bank (Wth 4.5-7m; int. H 0.2-0.8m; ext. H 1-1.4m) with some bushes and an outer fosse (Wth of top 4.5m; Wth of base 1m; D 0.2-0.55m) best preserved SW-NNE. The entrance (Wth 1.8m) and causeway (Wth 4.2m) are at ESE. There is local knowledge of a short souterrain passage (RO047-014002-) in the disturbed SW quadrant of the interior. Rath (RO047-013----) is c. 150m to the W.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.