Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Killiaghan And Gort, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killiaghan And Gort
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.53368, -8.05866
- SMR number
- RO045-052----
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 an E-facing slope. Subcircular grass-covered area (dims 41.7m NNW-SSE; 36.2m ENE-WSW) defined by an earthen bank (at NNW: Wth 3.3m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 1.15m; at SSE: Wth 5.2m; int. H 1.55m; ext. H 1.35m) with some scrub, separated by a fosse (at NNW: Wth of top 4.7m; Wth of base 2.5m; ext. D 1.15m), which is barely visible ESE-SW, from an outer bank (at NNW: Wth 4m; ext. H 0.7m) WNW-N-ESE. The entrance (Wth 2.5m) is at ESE.
See the attached aerial view taken from the NW
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.