Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Knockroe (Boyle By., Killummod ED), County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knockroe (Boyle By., Killummod ED)
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.90480, -8.19874
- SMR number
- RO010-081----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
Marked as a circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 40m) on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated on a N-facing slope in a low-lying landscape. Described as a rath (D'Alton 1845, 89), it has been removed by a quarry apart from a D-shaped grass-covered area (dims 29m E-W; 9m N-S) defined by a curving scarp (H 0.4-1m) SE-SW. Burial ground (RO010-080----) is c. 35 to the NW.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
References
D'Alton, J. 1845 The history of Ireland: from the earliest period to the year 1245. 2 vol. Dublin, Author.
Nearby in the register
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.