Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Killinraghty Little, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killinraghty Little
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.67441, -8.35672
- SMR number
- RO034-063----
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
Visible as a subcircular feature on aerial photographs (GSIAP: M 8-9), and situated on a gentle S-facing slope. D-shaped grass-covered area (dims 38m E-W; 36m N-S) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 1.8m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 0.45m) at NW, and by a fosse (Wth of base 3.3m at N to 5.2m at E; int. D 0.45m; ext. D 0.4-0.7m) SW-N-SE. It is truncated at S by an E-W field bank, now removed and reduced to a scarp (H 0.4m).
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
References
GSIAP - Geological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1973). Geological Survey. Beggars Bush, Haddington Road, Dublin 4.
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.