Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Kildalloge, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kildalloge
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.78399, -8.09861
- SMR number
- RO023-212----
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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 N edge of a plateau. D-shaped grass-covered area (dims 34.7m E-W; 34m N-S) defined by a slight scarp (H 0.2-0.3m) NE-SW with slight traces of a bank (Wth 3.2m; int. H 0.1m) and outer fosse (Wth c. 4m) at S. It is truncated by an E-W field bank, now removed, at N and a N-S field bank, also removed, at W. Archaeological testing (01E0564) c. 95m to the E failed to produce any related material (Read 2003e). Rath (RO023-171001-) is c. 120m to the ESE.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
References
Read, C. 2003e Kildaloge, Strokestown: no archaeological significance. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2001: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 356, No. 1125. Bray. Wordwell.
Nearby in the register
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.