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Ringfort - rath

Cuilrevagh, County Roscommon, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Cuilrevagh, County Roscommon, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Cuilrevagh
County
Roscommon
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
53.81668, -8.11151
SMR number
RO023-067----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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 D-shaped feature (dims c. 60m E-W; c. 30m N-S) and situated on a gentle E-facing slope of Greywood Hill. Described as the arc of a bank with a slight outer fosse (Gannon 1972), it is not now visible at ground level in pasture. It can be seen as a D-shaped vegetation mark (dims c. 50m ENE-WSW; c. 25m NNW-SSE) defined by the parch mark of an earthen bank and an outer fosse on digitalglobe images (c. 2015). Rath (RO023-069----) is c. 150m to the SE.

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of revised upload: 14 May 2018

References

Gannon, A. 1972 Archaeological survey of Roscommon. Unpublished typed index cards prepared for Roscommon County Council.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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