Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Cuiltyshinnoge, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cuiltyshinnoge
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.86017, -8.03059
- SMR number
- RO017-145----
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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 the NE-facing slope of a drumlin. Oval grass-covered area (dims 49m NW-SE; 38m NE-SW) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (at S: Wth 3.8m; int. H 1.1m; ext. H 1.3m; at E: Wth 4.4m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 1.8m) which is incorporated into a field bank and hedge with an outer fosse re-cut as a drain (Wth of top 5m; Wth of base 2-2.5m; D 0.9m) E-SW, and elsewhere by a scarp (H 1.2-1.3m) and hedge. There are entrances at NE (Wth 3m) and S (Wth 2.5m), both of which could be modern. Rath (RO017-146----) is c. 50m to the SE.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Crannogunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.