Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Kilree, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilree
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.78717, -8.31597
- SMR number
- RO021-042030-
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
On a rise at the crest of a WNW-ESE ridge. Oval grass-covered area (dims 45.5m N-S; 37m E-W) defined by scarps (H 0.8m at E to 2.4m at W) with a slight bank (Wth c. 2m; max. int. H 0.5m) on the perimeter NW-NE. The ramp entrance (Wth 3m) is at S, but there is no visible fosse. There are two grass-covered quarry pits in the interior and it is surrounded by straight field banks at S, W and N. The pitfield (RO021-042028-) and field system (RO021-042046-) are just to the NW, on the other side of an E-W public road.
See the attached view from the E.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.