Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Coolteige, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Coolteige
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Aghnamallaght Fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Aghnamallaght Fort
- Coordinates
- 53.68386, -8.17507
- SMR number
- RO035-063----
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
Marked on the 1837 and 1928 eds of the OS 6-inch map and described in gothic lettering on both as Aghnamallaght fort - the fort of the ford of curses. Situated on a SE-facing slope overlooking the headwaters of a SW-NE stream that feeds into the Scramoge River. This is a circular grass-covered area (diam. 45.2m NW-SE; 45.2m NE-SW) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 4.5m at SW to 9.3m at NW; int. H 0.45-1.4m; ext. H 1.7-1.8m) and hedge WSW-NE which is reduced to a scarp (H 1.25m) elsewhere. There is a rounded fosse (Wth of top 8.5-9m; Wth of base 3.3-4.5m; ext. D 0.2m at SW to 1-1.1m generally) which has faded away ENE-SE. There are gaps in the bank at WNW (Wth 2m) and N (Wth 1.5m), but the original entrance cannot be identified (max. ext. diam. 62.8m NE-SW).
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 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.