Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Killummod, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killummod
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.90319, -8.12580
- SMR number
- RO011-104----
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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
Towards the top of the NE-facing slope a NE-SW drumlin ridge. Oval grass-covered area (dims 35.5m NE-SW; 29.3m NW-SE) defined by a short stretch of earthen bank (Wth 4.25m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 0.95m) with an outer fosse (Wth of base 2m; D 0.1-0.2m) at W and a scarp (H 0.55m at SW to 1.4m at SE) elsewhere. There is no visible entrance, but the fosse is represented by a band of wet ground (Wth 2-2.5m) NW-ENE and SE-S. Rath (RO011-103----) is c. 90m to the NNE.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.