Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ring-ditch
Killeen East, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killeen East
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.82444, -8.19028
- SMR number
- RO022-170001-
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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
Located c. 20m to the W of an enclosure (RO022-170----) and discovered through archaeological excavation in conjunction with the ‘N5 Ballaghaderreen to Scramoge Road Project’. A circular ring-ditch (external diams. 5.32m N-S; 5.22m E-W; int. diams. 3.2m N-S; 3.25m E-W) was defined by a shallow ditch (D 0.25-0.27m; Wth 0.94-1.25m) with no evidence of an entrance. The ditch fills contained a substantial amount of burnt bone, glass beads, flint flakes and a fragment of a stone bracelet. The monument was fully excavated and recorded.
Closely associated and also excavated were a series of pits (RO022-170002- and RO022-170003-) and linear features (RO022-170004-).
See attached images:
• RO022-170001-_01 Snip from Google Earth imagery (11-5-2020) showing location of ring-ditch after
excavation.
• RO022-170001-_02 Snips of Plates 7 and 8 from ‘N5 Ballaghaderreen to Scramoge Road Project Stage
(iii) Post-Excavation Assessment Report: Killeen East 1 (March 2022. Unpublished)’ showing photos of
the excavated ring-ditch.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 4 August 2023
Nearby in the register
- Pitunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
- Pitunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.