What is recorded here
Indicated is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Drishoge, County Roscommon, Ireland. It appears as a circular enclosure about thirty-five metres across on the 1837 Ordnance Survey map and occupies level low-lying ground. A D-shaped platform rises 1.15 metres above a fosse that separates it from an outer bank running west, north and east. The southern edge is cut by an east-west railway line.
Marked as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 35m) on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated on level low-lying ground. D-shaped overgrown platform (dims 21m E-W; 10m N-S; H 1.15m) separated by a fosse (Wth of top 3.8m; Wth of base 1.3m; D 1m) from an outer bank (Wth of base 5m; Wth of top 3.75m; ext. H 0.35m) W-N-E. The monument is truncated at S by an E-W railway line at S.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
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