Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Kilmore (roscommon By.), County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilmore (roscommon By.)
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.78783, -8.07474
- SMR number
- RO023-178001-
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
At the E end of a low WNW-ESE drumlin ridge, on the E-facing slope. Subcircular grass-covered area (dims 34.7m N-S; 30.2m E-W) defined by an earthen bank with scrub (Wth 3.5-5.7m; int. H 0.2-0.8m; ext. H 0.7-1.1m), and an outer fosse (Wth of top 4-6.2m; Wth of base 2-3m; D 0.6m) SE-NE. There is no identifiable original entrance, and much of the interior has been dug out (D c. 0.7m), but there is a record in 1982 of a platform of stones, perhaps a house site (RO023-178002-), inside the perimeter at SE (SMR file). Rath (RO023-179----) is c. 160m to the SE.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
References
SMR file - Sites and monuments record files in the National Monuments Service, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage.
Nearby in the register
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.