Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Killeglan, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killeglan
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.41811, -8.18457
- SMR number
- RO050-006001-
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
Towards the bottom of a S-facing slope. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 24.2m ENE-WSW; 22.4m NNW-SSE) defined by a stone spread with facing-stones (original Wth 1.1-1.3m), visible especially SSW-W. There is no identifiable original entrance, but the perimeter is overlain by a field wall everywhere and field stones have been added at NNW and NE, on either side of a modern entrance at N. The foundations of a rectangular house (RO050-006003-) (ext. dims at least 5.2m E-W; 4.6m N-S), locally regarded as a children's burial ground (RO050-006002-), are against the inner edge of the perimeter at SSW.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.