Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Kilmore (athlone North By., Lecarrow Ed), County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilmore (athlone North By., Lecarrow Ed)
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.56666, -8.04026
- SMR number
- RO042-072001-
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 only on the 1915 ed. of the OS 6-inch map as a circular feature (diam. c. 50m), and situated on the SE-facing slope of a hill. Described as a circular area defined by an earthen bank and fosse, with an inner fosse and inner bank only at N (Ganoan1972), but this may have been a quarry. The entrance (Wth 2.5m) was at W, and there was a rectangular house-site (RO042-072002-) inside the inner bank feature at N (ibid.). It is not now visible at ground level in reclaimed pasture.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of revised upload: 5 June 2018
References
Gannon, A. 1972 Archaeological survey of Roscommon. Unpublished typed index cards prepared for Roscommon County Council.
Nearby in the register
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.