Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Kilmacananneny, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilmacananneny
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.74285, -8.04955
- SMR number
- RO029-112----
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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 only on the 1915 ed. of the OS 6-inch map as a circular feature (diam. c. 35m), and situated towards the bottom of the E-facing slope of Slieve Bawn, on the N bank of a small W-E stream. Overgrown but unplanted circular area (diam. 40m E-W; 39m N-S) in a coniferous forest defined by a low, round-topped earthen bank (Wth 2.3-2.4m; int. H 0.4-0.5m; ext. H 0.5m-0.9m) with no visible fosse or identifiable original entrance.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.