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Ringfort - rath

Gortaphuill (Athlone North By.), County Roscommon, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Gortaphuill, County Roscommon, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

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----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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