Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - ring-barrow
Kiltullagh, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kiltullagh
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.71434, -8.71221
- SMR number
- RO032-001002-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
On the summit of Kiltullagh Hill, just 5m NE of standing stone (RO032-001001-). Subcircular grass-covered area (int. dims 2.9m N-S; 2.3m E-W) defined by an earth and stone bank (Wth 2.8-3.7m; int. H 0.1m at N to 0.4m at W; ext. H 0.2m generally to 0.5m at N) with some inner facing-stones, which is quarried at E. Excavation (96E0179) revealed an outer fosse (max. ext. diam. 11m) with a cremation while the central pit was disturbed by robbing, but the mound had contained inhumations (RO031-001004-) (Coombs and Maude 1997). There was a second barrow (RO032-001003-) described by Knox (1914a, 45-6, Ring 2), whose location is uncertain but which lay to the W and might have been in Co. Mayo.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
References
Knox, H.T. 1914 Ruins of Cruachain Ai. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 44, 1-50.
Coombs, D.G. and Maude, K. 1997 Kiltullagh Hill, Kiltullagh, ring-barrow. In I. Bennet (ed.), Excavations 1996: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 95, No. 333. Bray. Wordwell.
Nearby in the register
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Burialunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.