Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Cuilmore (roscommon By., Ballygarden Ed), County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cuilmore (roscommon By., Ballygarden Ed)
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.82441, -8.10213
- SMR number
- RO023-027----
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 slight W-facing slope of a broad low drumlin. Oval grass and scrub-covered area (dims 58.6m E-W; 31m N-S) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (Wth 3.8-4.5m; int. H 0.7-0.8m; ext. H 1.2-1.7m) which is reduced to a scarp (H 1.2-1.5m) N-NE and SE-SW, and a fosse (Wth of top 4-6m; Wth of base 2.3-2.8m; D 1.3m) NW-E-S which has been re-cut and faced with a stone wall on the outside NW-NE. There is no identifiable original entrance and the monument is circumscribed by a field bank SE-SW.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
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- Hut siteunder 1 mi
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.