Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Gortaphuill (athlone North By.), County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gortaphuill (athlone North By.)
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Gortaphuill Fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Gortaphuill Fort
- Coordinates
- 53.47987, -8.18877
- SMR number
- RO047-029----
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 ENE-facing slope. D-shaped grass-covered area (dims 39m ENE-WSW; 37.5m NNW-SSE) defined by a low earthen bank (at ENE: Wth 5.5m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 0.6m), with slight traces of an outer fosse (Wth of base 2.4m; D 0.3m) SW-W. The straight bank (Wth 4.4m; int. H 1.35m; ext. H 0.55m) which may be original is at SW. The perimeter is truncated by a NE-SW field wall at NW and the monument is bisected by the remains of a NW-SE field wall. There is an entrance (Wth 1.3m) at SE, and the interior has NE-SW lazy-beds. Souterrain (RO047-084----) is located c. 100m to the ESE.
See the attached aerial view taken from the NNW.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 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.