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
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.56193, -8.15840
- SMR number
- RO042-162----
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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
On a gentle E-facing slope of a broad NW-SE spur. Subcircular grass and fern-covered area (dims 66m NW-SE; 56.3m NE-SW) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 2.6-5m; int. H 0.4-0.7m; ext. H 0.2-0.8m) which is incorporated into a field wall W-NNW but absent NNW-NNE (L 11m). There is no visible fosse and there are entrances at S (Wth 2.5m) and WSW (Wth 7.4m), but the original entrance (Wth 4.8m), marked by stones at either side, is at E. There is a quarry (diam. c. 10m; D c. 0.4m) at the centre, and this is overlain by a NW-SE field wall and hedge which bisects the interior.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Kiln - limeunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.