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
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.93538, -8.13608
- SMR number
- RO011-014002-
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 top of a small drumlin. Subcircular grass-covered area (diam. 37m E-W; 31m N-S) defined by a scarp (H 0.6m at NE to 1.4m at S) NE-S and an earthen bank (Wth 4.5m; int. H 0.3-0.5m; ext. H 1.3m) and fosse (Wth of base 2.7m; D 0.1m) SW-W, the bank being incorporated into a field bank W-N. There is no identifiable original entrance. Rath (RO011-014001-) is immediately to the NW.
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.