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
- 53.68018, -8.15312
- SMR number
- RO036-021----
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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
Towards the bottom of a gentle E-facing slope. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 40.5m N-S; 37.4m E-W) defined by an earthen bank (at E: Wth 5.4m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 1.1m) NNE-ESE and SSW-WSW, which is reduced to a scarp (H 0.5m S-W to 1.5m at N) elsewhere. It is surrounded by a rounded fosse (Wth of top 7.3-8m; Wth of base 2.7-3.3m; D 0.2-0.5m) WNW-E-WSW, but its outer edge is clipped by a NW-SE field bank at NE. There is a break in the bank (Wth 3.2m) at NE, but the original entrance is at ESE where there is a causeway (Wth 3.2m). The possible rath (RO036-020----) is c. 50m to the N and rath (RO036-022----) is c. 180m to the E.
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.