Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Kilgarve (frenchpark By.), County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilgarve (frenchpark By.)
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.80698, -8.48738
- SMR number
- RO020-023----
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 gentle S-facing slope of a WNW-ESE ridge. It is depicted as a circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 40m) on the 1837 edition of the OS 6-inch map and as a hachured rectangular feature on the 1911 edition. This is a rectangular grass-covered area (dims 31.5m NNE-SSE; 27.1m WNW-ESE) defined by poached earthen banks with some bushes at N (Wth 3.2m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 1.3m), S (Wth 2.7m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 0.6m) and W (Wth 2m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 0.6m), and by a N-S drain (Wth of top 3.2m; Wth of base 1.8m; D 0.5-0.6m) at E. There is no outer fosse or identifiable original entrance. This was probably a circular rath that was transformed into a rectangular field.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of revised upload: 10 May 2018
Nearby in the register
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.