What is recorded here

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Ross More East is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Ross More East, County Roscommon, Ireland. It occupies a slight east-west rise in a valley floor, with a small stream running twenty-five metres to the north. A grass-covered platform measures thirty-six by thirty-three metres, bounded by a scarp on the west and a straight fosse on the east. Another rath stands fourteen metres to the northwest.

Visible on aerial photograph (OS: 4/2050), and situated on a slight E-W rise on the floor of a valley with a small W-E stream c. 25m to the N. D-shaped grass-covered platform (dims c. 36m N-S; 33m E-W) defined by a scarp (H 1.4-1.5m) SW-W-NE, and by a fosse (Wth of top 6m; int. D 0.4m; ext. D 0.1m) on the straight E side (L 10m), but the perimeter merges into the slope SE-SW. There is no visible entrance, and the fosse is represented by a berm (Wth 3.5m) NW-NE. Rath (RO022-066001-) is 14m to the NW. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

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