Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Cootehall, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cootehall
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.98404, -8.15530
- SMR number
- RO007-018001-
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
At the bottom of a W-facing rise. Subcircular grass-covered area (dims 49m E-W; 43m N-S) defined by an overgrown scarp (H 0.1-0.95m) with an outer fosse (Wth of top 3-4m; D 0.1m) E-S which was complete in 1972 when there was evidence of an inner bank (Gannon 1972). There is no visible entrance. Fulacht fia (RO007-018002-) is c. 100m to the SW.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
References
Gannon, A. 1972 Archaeological survey of Roscommon. Unpublished typed index cards prepared for Roscommon County Council.
Nearby in the register
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 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.