What is recorded here

Fort Derham is a designed landscape feature in Mote Demesne, County Roscommon, Ireland. It appears as an oval wood in gothic lettering on the 1837 and 1915 Ordnance Survey maps and occupies a north-facing slope. The grass-covered area measures 147 metres northwest-southeast and 55 metres northeast-southwest, containing tree stumps and a flat-bottomed ditch with stone cladding on parts of the inner face. A 2.1-metre-wide entrance opens at the northwest.

Marked as an oval wood described in gothic lettering as 'Fort Derham' on the 1837 and 1915 eds of the OS 6-inch map, and situated on a N-facing slope. This is an oval grass-covered area with tree-stumps (dims 147m NW-SE; 55m NE-SW) defined by the slight dip of a ditch (Wth c. 2.5m), but the perimeter survives as a flat-bottomed ditch (Wth of top 3m; Wth of base 1m; int. D 1.75m; ext. D 1.2m) with stone cladding on the inner face of the ditch WSW-SW and at NW. There is an entrance (Wth 2.1m) at NW. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

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