Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Kildurney,lysterfield, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kildurney,lysterfield
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.51213, -8.11259
- SMR number
- RO045-134001-
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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
Marked only on the 1915 ed. of the OS 6-inch map as a D-shaped enclosure, and situated on a gentle NE-facing slope overlooking Lough Funshinagh, a large turlough, c. 300m to the N and E. D-shaped grass-covered area (dims. c. 25m N-S; c. 25m E-W) defined by a flat-topped earth and stone bank (Wth 3.2m; int. H 0.35m; ext. H 1.25m) W-NW which is reduced to a scarp (H c. 1m) NW-NNE. The site is truncated by a N-S field bank and townland boundary with Kildurney at E and an E-W field bank at S. There is a local tradition of, but no evidence of, its use as a childrens' burial ground (RO045-134002-) (Gannon 1972).
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
References
Gannon, A. 1972 Archaeological survey of Roscommon. Unpublished typed index cards prepared for Roscommon County Council.
Nearby in the register
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Mill - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.