Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Kilbride, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilbride
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.90444, -8.05055
- SMR number
- RO011-129001-
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 broad NW-SE drumlin ridge. Circular overgrown area (diam. 26-27m) defined by a fosse (Wth of base 2.6-3m; int. D 0.5-0.7m; ext. D 0.6-0.9m) and an outer overgrown earthen bank (Wth 4-4.2m; ext. H 1m). There is an outer fosse (Wth of base 2.7m; D 0.4-0.5m). There is no visible entrance, but there is a local tradition of a souterrain (RO011-129002-) in the interior. The site is bisected by an ENE-WSW field bank and drain.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.