Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Coolteige, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Coolteige
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.68055, -8.16953
- SMR number
- RO035-064001-
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
At the bottom of a N-facing karst ridge. Oval, grass-covered area (max. int. dims c. 70m N-S; 55m E-W) defined by a rebuilt drystone wall (Wth 1.5m at NE to 2.8m at W; H 0.2-0.9m), but the original double facing survives (Wth 3.2m) at SE. From S-SW the inner face of the wall (H 1.8m) is built on a limestone shelf (H 1.7m). There is an entrance (Wth 2.8m) at NNW. The interior is bisected by a NNW-SSE drystone wall, and there is a rectangular house site (RO035-064012-) (int. dims 7.6m NE-SW; 4.4m NW-SE) defined by a grass-covered stone spread (Wth 0.9-2m; H 0.25-0.4m) just E of the centre. Enclosure (RO035-064002-) is c. 100m to the SSW.
See the attached aerial view taken from the W.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.