Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Cronin, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cronin
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.47818, -8.20072
- SMR number
- RO047-020001-
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 S-facing slope. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 37m NNW-SSE; 36.3m ENE-WSW) with some bushes defined by an earthen bank best preserved SW-W-NE (at NNW: Wth of base 5.6m; Wth of top 1m; int. H 1m; ext. H 2m) where it is accompanied by an external flat-bottomed fosse (at NNW: Wth of top 7.3m; Wth of base 1.3m; D 1.2m) and faint traces of an outer bank. The defining bank is reduced to a low mound (at SSE: Wth 3m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 0.4m) with no evidence of a fosse NE-E-SW, and there is no identifiable original entrance. There is a small rectangular house platform (RO047-020002-) (dims c. 3m x 2m) inside the perimeter at SW. There are lazy-beds and clearance cairns in the interior.
See the attached aerial view taken from the NE
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Road - road/trackwayunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.