Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Kilbeg, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilbeg
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.80494, -8.00691
- SMR number
- RO024-013001-
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 an E-facing slope. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 34.6m E-W; 34m N-S) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (Wth 3.4-4.4m; int. H 0.2-0.5m generally to 1m at N; ext. H 0.6m to 1.5m at E), which is reduced to a scarp at SE where there is a modernised entrance (Wth 4m), and a fosse (Wth of top 3.5-4m; Wth of base 1.5-2m; D 0.6-0.8m). It is circumscribed by a field bank and townland boundary with Killastalliff E-SW and by a N-S laneway at W, while a field bank to the N has been removed. The site of St Patrick's Well (RO024-013002-) is immediately outside the bank at NE.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 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.