Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Kilcash, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilcash
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.57605, -8.14538
- SMR number
- RO042-020----
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
Towards the bottom of a NE-facing slope of Moydow Hill. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 31.1m NNE-SSW; 28.7m WNW-ESE) defined by an earth and stone bank (at SSW: Wth 3.2m; int. H 0.75m; ext. H 0.4m) E-S-N and by a scarp (H 1m) elsewhere. There is no visible fosse or identifiable original entrance, but a grass-covered trench (Wth c. 5m; D c. 0.5m) crosses the interior E-W. Cashel (RO042-019001-) is c. 120m to the SW.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.