Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Gortnasythe, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gortnasythe
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.47087, -8.07555
- SMR number
- RO048-081----
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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
At the bottom of a SW-facing slope. Circular overgrown platform (diam. c. 40m) defined by an earth and stone bank (at SSE: Wth 3m; int. H 0.45m; ext. H 1.15m) largely reduced to a scarp, with evidence of outer facing-stones at SE. There are slight traces of a silted fosse ENE-ESE and at S, and the entrance (Wth 1.5m) is at SSW. Archaeological testing (03E1655) just to the N failed to produce any related material (Fitzpatrick 2006a).
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
References
Fitzpatrick, M. 2006a Gortnasythe: no archaeological significance. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2003: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 423, No. 1577. Bray. Wordwell.
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - bowl-barrowunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.