Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Kilmocolmock, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilmocolmock
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.39557, -8.01508
- SMR number
- RO052-023----
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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 as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m) defined by a complete drystone wall on aerial photographs (GSIAP: M 226-7), and situated in a hollow of a gently undulating landscape. It is not visible at ground level in reclaimed pasture. Cashels (RO052-010----) and (RO052-011----) are c. 80m to the NE and c. 190m to the E respectively, and this monument too may be a cashel. The cashel (RO052-027----) is c. 180m to the SW.
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 - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Hilltop enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.