Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Kilmacumsy, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilmacumsy
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.85285, -8.20965
- SMR number
- RO016-101----
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 a level landscape. Descirbed as a subcircular area (diam. 35m E-W; 29m N-S) defined by a gapped earthen bank, with traces of an outer fosse W-NW (Gannon 1972). It is now visible as a circular grass-covered area (diam. 29m) defined by a fosse (Wth 4m; int. D 0.4-1m; ext. D 0.2m). There is no visible entrance.
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.