Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Kilcash, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilcash
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.56800, -8.15907
- SMR number
- RO042-048----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
On a gentle SE-facing slope. Circular grass-covered area with some bushes (diam. 27.5m ENE-WSW) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 5.4-6m; int. H 0.3-0.75m; ext. H 1.2-1.25m). This is separated by a berm (Wth 10.5-14.4m) from an earthen bank (Wth 5-5.6m; int. H 0.85-2.3m; ext. H 2.2-2.75m) which is separated by a fosse (Wth of top 6.4-7m; Wth of base 2-3.8m; ext. D 1-1.35m) from a third bank (Wth 1.7-2.4m; ext. H 0.3-0.6m), which is missing ESE-SSW (max. ext. diam. 80m ENE-WSW). There is an entrance through the inner (Wth 2.8m) and central (Wth 1.7m) banks, and a causeway across the fosse, at SE. Rath (RO042-049001-) is c. 170m to the SE.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Cross - Wayside crossunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.