Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Kilmocolmock, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilmocolmock
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.39517, -8.01189
- SMR number
- RO052-011----
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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 as a circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 30m) only on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated on a rise in a low-lying position in an undulating landscape. Described as a semicircular wall foundation surviving NE-S (Gannon 1972). It is not visible now at ground level in pasture. Archaeological testing (02E0879) c. 50m to the NW failed to produce any related material (Quinn 2004a). The possible cashel (RO052-023----) is c. 190m to the W and cashel (RO052-010----) is c. 100m to the NW.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
References
Quinn, B. 2004a Kilmocolmock: no archaeological significance. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2002: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 455, No. 1613. Bray. Wordwell.
Gannon, A. 1972 Archaeological survey of Roscommon. Unpublished typed index cards prepared for Roscommon County Council.
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.