Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Killinordanbeg, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killinordanbeg
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.77216, -8.03707
- SMR number
- RO029-042----
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
Towards the top of a gentle S-facing slope. Circular overgrown area (diam. 38m E-W; 35m N-S) within a D-shaped wood (dims c. 80m E-W; c. 80m N-S) that is only depicted on the 1915 edition of the OS 6-inch map. It is defined by an earthen bank (Wth 4.8-5m; int. H 0.3-0.6m; ext. H 0.9-1.6m) separated by a rounded fosse (Wth of top 4-4.3m; Wth of base 1.9-2.3m; D 0.4-0.9m) from an outer bank (Wth 3-3.4m; ext. H 0.2m), which has been removed NE-ESE (max. ext. dims 54m E-W; 53.2m N-S). There is no identifiable original entrance and a NNE-SSW field drain cuts through the outer bank and fosse at W.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.