Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Rathpeak, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rathpeak
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.32725, -8.14195
- SMR number
- RO054-028----
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 a low rise. Subcircular grass-covered platform (dims 39m N-S; 35m E-W) defined by a scarp (at E: Wth 2.4m; H 0.4m; at W: Wth 5m; H 0.8m) with slight traces of a bank (Wth c. 1m; int. H 0.1m) with some bushes at the top of the scarp. There is a fosse (at W: Wth of top 7.8m; Wth of base 1.8m; D 0.6m) SSW-N and a stone wall circumscribes the perimeter SSW-NW. There is no identifiable original entrance.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.