Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Kilcooley, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilcooley
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.76776, -8.20974
- SMR number
- RO028-047----
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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
Indicated on the 1837 and 1930 eds of the OS 6-inch map as an enclosure cut by an E-W road. Situated on a broad plateau. An arc (C 22m E-W) of an earthen bank (Wth 2.5m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 0.8m), frequently reduced to a scarp (H 0.6-0.7m) and with slight traces of a fosse (Wth of base 3m) survives NW-NE on the N side of the Strokestown - Tulsk road (N5). A section of the perimeter survives S of the road incorporated into a curving field bank (Wth 1.6m; int. H 1m; ext. H 1.3m) SW-W (diam. c. 39m N-S; c. 36m E-W).
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Architectural fragmentunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.