Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Cuilkeel, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cuilkeel
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.05338, -8.09194
- SMR number
- RO004-024----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
On a low N-S ridge. Circular overgrown area (diam. c. 25m) defined by a scarp (H 0.55-1.2m) and an outer fosse (Wth 3-4m; D 0.1m). There is no visible entrance, and a NW-SE field bank with a track on its NE side overlie the site towards the perimeter at NE with a coniferous forest beyond the site on this side of the field bank.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Sweathouseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.