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Ringfort - rath

Coolteige, County Roscommon, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Coolteige, County Roscommon, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Coolteige
County
Roscommon
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Embanked enclosure
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
53.68182, -8.15240
SMR number
RO036-019----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Marked as a D-shaped embanked enclosure (ext. dims c. 70m N-S; c. 50m E-W) curtailed by a NNE-SSW field bank at NW on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map and as a fragment of a bank (C c. 40m) E-S on the 1914 ed. Situated on a gentle N-facing slope. This is a subrectangular grass-covered area (dims c. 54m NW-SE; c. 30m NE-SW) defined by an arc of grass-covered earthen bank (Wth 5.3m; H 0.2-0.3m) at SE, a low scarp (H 0.4m) at NE, a shallow fosse or ditch (Wth 2m; D 0.25m) at NW and a NW-SE road wall at SW. The interior is overlain by a NE-SW field wall towards the NW edge. The possible rath (RO036-020----) is c. 10m to the SW.

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 24 August 2010

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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