Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Moated site
Kye, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kye
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.84765, -8.14227
- SMR number
- RO017-162----
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 the S-facing slope of a small E-W drumlin ridge. Square grass-covered area (dims 27.5m N-S; 27.5m E-W) defined by a scrub-covered earthen bank (Wth 4-5m; int. H 0.4m at E to 1.6m at N; ext. H 0.95m) at N and the N part of the E side, and scrub-covered scarps (H 0.7m at W to 1.5m at S) elsewhere. There is no visible fosse or moat.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.