Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Earthwork
Kilmacroy, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilmacroy
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.07965, -8.21561
- SMR number
- RO001-001----
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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
Marked only on the 1914 ed. of the OS 6-inch map as a hachured feature (diam. c. 25m) truncated at S by an E-W quarry. Situated on the SW bank of the NW-SE Feorish River with the river immediately to the N. D-shaped scrub-covered area (dims. 17m E-W; 8.5m N-S) defined by a scarp (H 0.8m at W to 3.2m at E). It is bisected by a N-S field bank and drain, and truncated by a quarry at S. It may be a spoil mound. Moated site (RO001-002----) is c. 180m to the NE.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.