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Ringfort - rath

Clogher (ballintober North By.),kilmore (ballintober North By.), County Roscommon, Ireland

The record

Townland
Clogher (ballintober North By.),kilmore (ballintober North By.)
County
Roscommon
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
53.89193, -8.01155
SMR number
RO012-019----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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

Marked only on the 1914 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated on a SE-facing slope of a broad drumlin. D-shaped grass-covered area (dims. 29m E-W; 23m N-S) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 4-4.2m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 0.95m) and fosse (Wth of base 2-2.5m) NW-N, and scarp (H 0.55-0.8m) elsewhere. There is no visible entrance, and the site is truncated by an E-W drystone wall and townland boundary with Kilmore at S. Rath (RO012-018----) is c. 150m to the NW.

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 24 August 2010

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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