Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Hilltop enclosure
Killeenadeema, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killeenadeema
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.54447, -8.18773
- SMR number
- RO044-025----
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
On the summit of a hill. Two possible ramparts, probably of stone, are visible on aerial photographs (CUCAP: APH 20, 21; GSIAP: M 217-8) encircling the summit (int. diam. c. 100m) S-W-N. They are not visible at ground level in reclaimed pasture.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
References
GSIAP - Geological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1973). Geological Survey. Beggars Bush, Haddington Road, Dublin 4.
CUCAP - Cambridge University Collection of Aerial Photographs. Unit for Landscape Modelling, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge. See:https://www.cambridgeairphotos.com
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Enclosure - large enclosureunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.