Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Kilgarve (boyle By.), County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilgarve (boyle By.)
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.04626, -8.14200
- SMR number
- RO004-026----
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 shelf of a slight S-facing slope with a N-S stream immediately to the E. Oval grass and scrub-covered area (dims 33m E-W; 24.8m N-S) defined by an overgrown scarp (H 1m at N to 1.9m at E), with a fosse (Wth of top 6.5m; Wth of base 3.2m; int. D 0.75m; ext. D 0.4m) SW-NW which is continued by a berm (Wth 4m) SE-SW. There is no visible entrance. It remains unplanted in a forest (OSAP).
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
References
OSAP - Ordnance Survey Aerial Photographs. Photographic collection. Ordnance Survey of Ireland. Dublin.
Nearby in the register
- Sweathouseunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - court tombunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.