Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Moated site
Rathkeva, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rathkeva
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.77587, -8.29671
- SMR number
- RO028-005----
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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
Marked as a small rectangular field with a house to the W on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. It is located towards the bottom of a slight S-facing slope. Rectangular grass-covered platform (dims 30m N-S; 25m E-W) defined by an earthen bank at N (Wth 3.4m; int. H 0.7m; ext. H 0.5m) and E (Wth 4.6m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 0.3m), a scarp (H 0.8m) at S, and a fosse at W (Wth of top 3m; Wth of base 1.5m; int. D 0.7m; ext D 0.2m) and N (Wth 2m; D 0.2m). There is an entrance (Wth 1m) at the W end of the S side, and the perimeter at E is overlain by a N-S field wall.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of revised upload: 31 July 2015
Nearby in the register
- Road - road/trackwayunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 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.