Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Brideswell, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Brideswell
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.45830, -8.10031
- SMR number
- RO048-107----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid 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)
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
On a rise in an undulating landscape. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 28m NNW-SSE) defined by an earth and stone bank (at N: Wth 3.2m; int. H 0.85m; ext. H 0.5m) with traces of internal and external facing-stones (original Wth 2.1m) which survives NNW-SE but is barely traceable elsewhere. There is no identifiable original entrance or fosse but lazy-beds are visible in the interior, and the remains of a field wall circumscribes the perimeter NE-S. Rath (RO048-078001-) is c. 70m to the N and cashel (RO106----) is c. 180m to the SW.
See the attached aerial image taken from the SW.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Sweathouseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.