Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Kingsland, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kingsland
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.91575, -8.40955
- SMR number
- RO009-037----
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 low E-W ridge. Circular grass and nettle-covered area (diam. 39m E-W; 37m N-S) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (Wth 6m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 1.6m) NE-SE and by a scarp (H 1-1.45m) elsewhere. It is surrounded by an overgrown fosse (Wth of base 5.3-7.5m; D 0.6m at N to 1.5m at E) and outer bank (Wth 4.7-6m; H 0.8m at N to 1.4m at E), with an outer fosse (at N: Wth of top 4m; Wth of base 2.2m; D 0.2-0.4m) N-ESE that can be traced as a band of rushes ESE-SW. There is a third bank (Wth 4m; H 0.4-0.5m) SSW-SW which may be obscured by upcast from drainage SW-NW but is not visible elsewhere (max. ext. diam. c. 70m N-S). There is no visible entrance.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Crannogunder 1 mi
- Crannogunder 1 mi
- Concentric enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.