Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure - large enclosure
Kilcash, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilcash
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.57305, -8.13709
- SMR number
- RO042-052----
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 gentle NE-facing slope of Moydow Hill. This is a D-shaped grass-covered area (dims 63.5m ENE-WSW; 56.5m NNW-SSE) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 3.4-4.1m; int. H 0.95m; ext. H 0.75-1.15m) with the straight side at NW. There is no visible fosse or identifiable original entrance. Rath (RO042-051----) is c. 175m to the WSW and rath (RO042-025----) is c. 200m to the NW.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.