Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Killiaghan And Gort, County Roscommon, Ireland
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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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
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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.