Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Kilcooley, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilcooley
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.76908, -8.20277
- SMR number
- RO028-244----
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 top of a broad hill. Subcircular grass-covered area (dims 29.9m N-S; 24m E-W) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 2.2-3.5m; int. H 0.2-0.4m; ext. H 0.5-0.7m), with a flat-bottomed fosse (Wth of top 4-6.6m; Wth of base 2.2-3m; D 0.3-0.7m) NE-S-W and an outer bank (Wth 2.2m; ext. H 0.2m) S-NW. There is an entrance (Wth 3.4m) at SE. The monument is overlain by an E-W field bank and outer drain at N, which distorts the perimeter here, and the interior is overlain by a NNE-SSW relict field bank.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Road - road/trackwayunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Architectural fragmentunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.