Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Kiltybranks, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kiltybranks
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.87317, -8.60464
- SMR number
- RO014-023001-
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
At the crest of a NW-SE ridge. Subcircular grass-covered area (dims 26.4m N-S; 23.4m E-W) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 2.5-3.1m; int. H 0.1-0.5m; ext. H 1-1.3m) incorporated into a field bank and hedge ESE-S-WNW, and a scarp (H 0.6-1.4m) elsewhere. There is no visible fosse or entrance. The entrance to souterrain (RO014-023002-) is at the centre, and a grass-covered circular penitential cairn (RO014-023003-) (diam. 12m E-W; 10.75m N-S; max. H 1.3m) with a trig. station on its summit is immediately E of its entrance. An extended burial (RO014-023004-) with the head at W was found inside the perimeter at N in 1962 (NMI file).
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Penitential stationunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Burialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.