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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
Indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
53.81331, -8.11270
SMR number
RO023-070001-

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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

On an E-facing slope at the E end of a broad coll with hills rising to the NW and S. Circular grass-coveed area (diam. 37m N-S; 36.5m E-W) defined by an overgrown and partly poached earthen bank (Wth 3.5-5.2m; int. H 0.4-0.9m; ext. H 0.9-1.7m) and an outer fosse (Wth of top 4-5.6m; Wth of base 1.8-3m; D 0.3m-0.9m). There is an entrance (Wth 2m) and causway (Wth 4m) at NW, and the perimeter is circumscribed by a field bank SW-NW. There is no evidence of what might have been marked as a building (RO023-070002-) in the interior on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. Rath (RO023-077001-) is c. 220m to the SSE. Archaeological testing (20E0711) by M. McCormick c. 90m to the SW at the closest point produced no related material (excavations.ie 2020:252).

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Amended: 21 October 2021

Nearby in the register

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

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