Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Coolmeen (Roscommon By.), County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Coolmeen (Roscommon By.)
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.85872, -8.10916
- SMR number
- RO017-129----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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)
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
At the E end of a low E-W drumlin ridge. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 40m N-S; 37m E-W) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (Wth 5.8m; int. H 0.65m at WSW to 1.6m at NNW; ext. H 1.25m at WSW to 2.3m at NNW) SE-W-NE, which is reduced to a grass-covered scarp (H 0.5-0.7m) elsewhere, with an outer fosse (Wth of base 4m; D 0.3-0.6m) SW-NW. There is no visible entrance.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Burialunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.