Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
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
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.53952, -8.08494
- SMR number
- RO045-044001-
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 crest of a SW-facing slope of a NW-SE valley. Circular grass-covered area (ext. diam. 35.1m NW-SE; 34.8m NE-SW) defined by the base of a double-faced wall (at ESE: Wth 2m; int. H 0.8m; ext. H 0.45m) NE-SSW with a rebuilt drystone wall on top of it elsewhere. There is no identifiable original entrance but there is a house site (RO045-044002-) (int. dims 4.2m NW-SE; 1.4-2.4m NE-SW) defined by rock outcrop and stone walls at the centre, and the interior is overlain by some grass-covered walls. Hut site (RO045-043----) is c. 60m to the S.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Barrow - embanked barrowunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.