What is recorded here

Indicated is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Tansyfield, County Roscommon, Ireland. The circular grass-covered area sits at the crest of a north-facing slope and contains an overgrown earthen bank with a shallow fosse. Another rath lies thirty metres to the southeast.

At the crest of the N-facing slope at the E end of an E-W drumlin ridge. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 36.7m N-S; 34.2m E-W) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (Wth 4.2-4.8m; int. H 0.2m at E to 1m at W) which is reduced to an overgrown scarp NW-NE where the site is curtailed by an E-W field bank, and a fosse (Wth of top 4.4m; Wth of base 2.2-2.4m; D 0.6m) SE-W-NNW. The original entrance is not identified. Rath (RO023-016----) is c. 30m to the SE. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

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