Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure - large enclosure
Kellybrook (athlone North By.), County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kellybrook (athlone North By.)
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.55083, -8.07147
- SMR number
- RO042-102002-
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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
In a broad, flat-bottomed NW-SE valley. The castle (RO042-102001-) is within an oval grass-covered enclosure (dims 90m NE-SW; 60m NW-SE) defined by a fosse (Wth of top 3.5m-4m; int. D 0.2m-0.33m; ext. D 0.1m) SW-N and by a low bank (Wth 3m; int. H 0.1m; ext. H 0.2m) or scarp (H 0.2m) elsewhere. It has no identifiable original entrance.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.