Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Keyfield, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Keyfield
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.72393, -8.60830
- SMR number
- RO026-059----
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
Marked as a circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 40m) on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated on the gentle N-facing slope of a broad spur. Subcircular grass-covered area (dims 28m E-W; 24.5m N-S) defined by an earthen bank with some bushes (at W: Wth 3m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 0.4m) S-W-N and a scarp (H 0.2m at E) elsewhere. There is no visible fosse or identifiable original entrance. It is bisected by a NNE-SSW field wall and barely survives E of this.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Crannogunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.