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Ringfort - cashel

Killiaghan And Gort, County Roscommon, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - cashel, Killiaghan And Gort, County Roscommon, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Killiaghan And Gort
County
Roscommon
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.52169, -8.04332
SMR number
RO045-111----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Visible on aerial photographs (GSIAP: M 222-3), and situated on a shelf of a gentle ENE-facing slope of a reclaimed karst landscape. Circular area (int. diam. 48.5m NNW-SSE; 48.2m ENE-WSW) defined by a grass-covered stone spread (Wth 8-10m; int. H 0.55-0.85m; ext. H 0.1-0.35m). A relict E-W field bank crosses the interior with two small paddocks (dims c. 15m x 8-17m) in the interior N of this feature. There is no identifiable original entrance. Rath (RO045-110----) is 110m to the NNE and field system (RO045-109----) is c. 150m to the NE.

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.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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