Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Kilcolman, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilcolman
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.90197, -8.56854
- SMR number
- RO008-038----
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 slight E-facing slope. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 38m E-W) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 3m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 0.5m) which is reduced to a scarp (H 0.2m) NE-SE. An outer fosse (Wth of base 2-2.2m; D 0.6m) separates it from an outer bank (Wth 1.7-2.7m; ext. H 0.2-0.5m) NE-NW. There is no visible entrance, and the site is truncated by an ENE-WSW railway bank at N. Archaeological testing c. 20m to the E failed to produce archaeological material, (Fitzpatrick 2009b).
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
References
Fitzpatrick, M. 2009b Kilcolman: no archaeological significance. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2006: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 459, No. 1734. Dublin. Wordwell.
Nearby in the register
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.