Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Garrynphort (athlone South By.), County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Garrynphort (athlone South By.)
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.48923, -8.19247
- SMR number
- RO047-019001-
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 an undulating landscape within the field system (RO047-019002-). Oval grass and scrub-covered area (int. dims 31m N-S; c. 25m E-W) defined by an earth and stone bank best preserved (Wth 5.3m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 0.4m) E-S, and a slight scarp elsewhere, but the perimeter cannot be traced N-NE. There is no visible fosse or identifiable original entrance. The interior is uneven, and there is a hut-site (RO047-019003-) (int. diam. 7m) defined by a slight bank (Wth c. 1m) on a rise inside the perimeter at NW. Cashel (RO047-019004-) is c. 200m to the SE.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.