Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Knock, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knock
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.38539, -8.16149
- SMR number
- RO051-070----
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
On the crest of an E-W ridge towards the E end. Circular scrub-covered area (diam. 35.8m NW-SE) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 5.3-8.3m; int. H 0.8-1.2m; ext. H 1.7-2.1m) separated by a fosse (at NW: Wth of top 6m; Wth of base 2.1m; D 1.5m) from an outer bank (at NW: Wth 2.6m; H 0.8m) with some bushes which is incorporated into a field bank. There is no visible entrance, and both banks are removed N-ESE. Ring-barrow (RO051-069----) is c. 140m to the W.
See the attached view taken from the NE.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Road - road/trackwayunder 1 mi
- Castle - ringworkunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.