Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Coolteige, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Coolteige
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.68182, -8.15240
- SMR number
- RO036-019----
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 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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.