Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Onagh, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Onagh
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.40849, -8.14238
- SMR number
- RO051-027----
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
Marked only on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map as a circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 35m), and situated on a slight knoll in an undulating landscape. Circular area (diam. 22m N-S; 20m E-W) defined by a slight scarp (H 0.1-0.5m) visible in a cut cereal crop.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Stoup (present location)under 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.