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
- 53.67995, -8.14971
- SMR number
- RO036-022----
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 circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 40-45m) on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map and as a fragment of a bank (diam. c. 25m) NE-E-SW on the 1914 ed. Situated towards the bottom of a gentle E-facing slope. Described as a circular area (diam. c. 25m) defined by an earthen bank and a water-filled fosse which only survived E-S (Gannon 1972). It is not visible now in reclaimed pasture. Rath (RO036-021----) is c. 180m to the W.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
References
Gannon, A. 1972 Archaeological survey of Roscommon. Unpublished typed index cards prepared for Roscommon County Council.
Nearby in the register
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.