Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Killinraghty Big, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killinraghty Big
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.68459, -8.36215
- SMR number
- RO034-038----
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 a gentle S-facing slope of a large NW-SE ridge. D-shaped grass-covered area (dims 40.2m NW-SE; 34.5m NE-SW) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 4.4-4.7m; int. H 0.3-0.7m; ext. H 1.1-1.6m) and hedge E-S and W-N, and by a scarp (H 0.5m) S-W. The monument is truncated by the NW-SE N60 Castlerea to Roscommon road at NE. There is no identifiable original entrance but there are traces of an outer fosse (Wth of top 7m; Wth of base 3.3; D 0.4m) at NW.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.