Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - unclassified
Cam, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cam
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.45054, -8.11603
- SMR number
- RO048-103----
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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
Towards the bottom of an E-facing slope. Oval grass and scrub-covered area (dims. 48m ENE-WSW; 39m NNW-SSE) defined by an overgrown earth and stone bank (at N: Wth 7m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 1.1m at N) N-E, with traces of an outer fosse (Wth of top 7m; Wth of base 4m; D 0.1m) W-N. Elsewhere the perimeter is an overgrown stone spread (at S: Wth 3.5m; H 0.8m at S) with facing stones (original Wth 1.8m), although obscured with spoil. There are gaps at W (Wth 3.5m), N (Wth 4.2m) and E (Wth 2m) but the original entrance is not recognised. Cashel (RO048-104001-) is c 100m to the SSE.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.