Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Kilbegnet, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilbegnet
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.62347, -8.37432
- SMR number
- RO038-030----
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 area (dims c. 40m N-S; c. 30m E-W) curtailed by a N-S field bank at E on the 1840 ed. of the OS 6-inch map (GA 019), and as a D-shaped area (dims c. 30m E-W; c. 20m N-S) curtailed by an E-W field bank at S on the 1927 ed. (RO038). Situated towards the bottom of a N-facing slope. D-shaped scrub-covered area (dims 33.4m ENE-WSW; 22.2m NNW-SSE) defined by a scarp (H 0.2-0.8m) W-N-E, with a slight earthen bank (Wth 2.8m; H 0.45m) on the perimeter at ENE. The monument is truncated by an ENE-WSW field bank and hedge at S and cannot be seen S of this. Rath (RO038-029----) is c. 190m to the SW.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.