Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ardkill, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ardkill
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.90746, -8.65900
- SMR number
- RO008C021001-
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 gentle S-facing slope. Circular overgrown area (diam. 34m N-S; 32.5m E-W) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (at N: Wth 4.5m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 1.2m) SW-N, which is reduced to a slight bank (Wth 4-4.5m; int. H 0.1-0.2m; ext. H 2m) E-SW and replaced by a road wall N-E. There is no visible fosse or entrance, but there is a local tradition of a childrens' burial ground (RO008C021002-) (Gannon 1972).
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 Unpublished typed index cards prepared for Roscommon County Council.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
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.