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
- 53.67557, -8.36189
- SMR number
- RO034-106----
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. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 30.2m NNE-SSW; 27.8m WNW-ESE) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 4.5-5m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 1m) NW-E-SE which is reduced to a scarp (H 0.7-0.8m) elsewhere, and a flat-bottomed fosse (Wth of top 6m S-W to 11m N-NE; Wth of base 2m at SW to 5m N-NE) SW-N-E. There is an outer bank (Wth 2.5m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 0.4m) S-W, and an entrance (Wth 1.2m) at E. The church (RO034-059001-) is c. 140m to the NW.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.