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Ringfort - rath

Coolteige, County Roscommon, Ireland

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Townland: Coolteige
County: Roscommon
Country: Ireland
First-edition OS map: Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map: Hachured
Coordinates: 53.67720, -8.17985
SMR number: RO035-065----

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On a N-facing slope. D-shaped, grass-covered area (dims c. 33m N-S; c. 20m E-W) defined by an earthen bank (at W: Wth 6.8m; int. H 0.7m; ext. H 1.6m) and fosse (at W: Wth of base 1.8m; D 0.55m) S-W-N. There is an oval pond (dims. 14m N-S; 8m E-W; D 0.6m) in the interior, and the monument is truncated at E by a N-S field bank and road. Rath (RO035-066----) is c. 130m to the ESE. Archaeological testing (03E0749), c. 50m to the SE (Read 2006h), and further testing (05E0042) c. 70m to the S (Byrne, M. E. 2008a) failed to produce any related material.

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 24 August 2010

References

Byrne, M.E. 2008a Coolteige: no archaeological significance. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2005: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 322-3, No. 1322. Dublin. Wordwell

Read, C. 2006h Coolteige: no archaeological significance. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2003: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 421, No. 1568. Bray. Wordwell.

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