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
- 53.89546, -8.19567
- SMR number
- RO010-089----
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 level landscape with a small W-E stream or drain curving around the monument W-S-E c. 50-100m distant. This is a subcircular grass-covered area (dims 33m N-S; 28.4m E-W) defined by a gapped earthen bank (Wth 2.3m at E to 4.6m at S; int. H 0.3-0.55m; ext. H 1.1m at E to 1.4m at S) NW-E-SW reduced to a scarp (H 1.6m) elsewhere, and an outer fosse (Wth 2.5-3m; D 0.2-0.5m) SE-W-NNE. There is no recognizable original entrance.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Barrow - mound barrowunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.