Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Kilcolman, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilcolman
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.90658, -8.56122
- SMR number
- RO008-021001-
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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 gentle S-facing slope. Subcircular area (dims 41m NE-SW; 37m NW-SE) defined by a flat-topped earthen bank (Wth of base 3-3.5m; Wth of top 1-2m; int. H 0.2m at W to 0.9m generally; ext. H 0.4m at N to 1-1.6m generally), with an outer fosse (Wth of base 1.2-1.8m; ext. D 0.4-0.6m) ESE-W. There is an entrance (Wth 1.3m) and causeway (Wth 1.3m) at W, and the perimeter is slightly truncated by a NW-SE road bank at NE. Church (RO008-021002-) is in the interior and the rath is now a graveyard (RO008-021003-) with a rectangular graveyard (dims c. 180m NW-SE; c. 60m NE-SW) extending off to the NW.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.