Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Cuilleen (moycarn By.), County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cuilleen (moycarn By.)
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.35427, -8.16149
- SMR number
- RO054-008----
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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
On the crest of a slight E-W ridge. This is a D-shaped grass and scrub-covered area (dims 32m N-S; c. 30m E-W) defined by a scarp (H 0.2m) NW-N-SE, an eroded earthen bank (Wth 4m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 0.6m) SE-SW (L 19m) and spoil on the straight W side, masking the original bank. There is no visible fosse or identifiable original entrance. Rath (RO053-009----) is c. 120m to the ENE.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.