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
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.53072, -8.06548
- SMR number
- RO045-101001-
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 a gentle SW-facing slope. Subrectangular grass-covered area (dims 54m NE-SW; 46.6m NW-SE) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 4.8-5.3m; int. H 0.55-0.6m; ext. H 1.45-1.55m) and outer fosse (Wth of top 4.8-5.8m; Wth of base 1.6-2.5m; D 0.6-0.95m), with an outer bank (at SE: Wth 2.7m; ext. H 0.35m) N-S-W. The entrance through the inner (Wth 4.1m) and outer (Wth 10m) banks and causeway are at SW. There is a circular hut-site (RO045-101002-) (ext. diam. 14.5m NE-SW; 12.5m NW-SE) defined by a grass-covered earthen bank (Wth c. 3m) inside the bank at W, and the fosse is extended into a pond at N. Hut site (RO045-100----) is c 120m to the SW.
See the attached aerial view taken from the S
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.