Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Tawlaght (Boyle By., Killukin ED), County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Tawlaght (Boyle By., Killukin ED)
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.93555, -8.13665
- SMR number
- RO011-014001-
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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
On top of a small drumlin. Oval grass-covered area (dims 45m E-W; 34m N-S) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (Wth 3m at E to 4.4m at N; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 0.95-1.5m) N-E and a scarp (H 0.2m at SW to 1.5m at NW) elsewhere. There is an outer fosse represented by a band of wet ground (Wth 3m) W-ENE and the site is circumscribed by an overgrown field bank ESE-W which is part of the perimeter of rath (RO011-014002-) immediately to the SE. Rath (RO011-012----) is c. 170m to the NW and rath (RO011-013----) is c. 190m to the NNW.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.