Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Glennanea,turlaghmore, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Glennanea,turlaghmore
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.39797, -8.14066
- SMR number
- RO051-049----
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 as a subrectangular embanked enclosure (dims c. 30m x c. 30m) on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated on the crest of a low N-S esker ridge. Described as a circular area defined by the remains of a stone wall which was absent W-N and overlain by the N-S townland boundary with Turlaghmore (Gannon 1972). It is not visible now at ground level in pasture. Rath (RO051-050001-) is c. 200m to the SSE.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.