Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Kilgarve (Ballintober North By.), County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilgarve (Ballintober North By.)
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.84864, -8.01058
- SMR number
- RO018-023----
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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)
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The National Monuments Service's description
Marked only on the 1914 ed. of the OS 6-inch map as a circular field (diam. c. 55m), and situated on a slight NW-facing slope, c. 50m E from the E shore of Grange Lough. D-shaped grass and reed-covered area (dims 55m N-S; 51m E-W) defined by a slight earthen bank (at S: Wth 5.3m; int. H 0.1m; ext. H 0.3m) E-SW and a scarp (H 0.5-0.6m) NW-E. It is truncated by a scarp (H 1.1m) and hedge at W. There is no visible fosse or entrance. Rath (RO018-023----) is c. 200m to the SE.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Crannogunder 1 mi
- Millstone quarryunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.