Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Tirhomin, County Donegal, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Tirhomin
- County
- Donegal
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Ballyboe Fort (1905)
- Coordinates
- 55.11021, -7.66124
- SMR number
- DG027-030----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1881 "Ireland to Illustrate the Military Condition of the Country." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
A site named 'Ballyboe Fort' on the OS 6-inch map appears to have been misread as 'Ballyboe Altar' and consequently described as a 'prehistoric chamber tomb' (Killanin and Duignan 1962; 1967). It is a ringfort (Lacy 1983).
Killanin and Duignan 1962, 373; Killanin and Duignan 1967, 374; Lacy 1983, 193, no. 1147; SMR 1987, 27:30; RMP 1995, 27:30.
'Ballyboe Fort' marked on the OS 6-inch maps now consists of a flat-topped platform c. 40m N-S and 32m E-W. The E side, however, has been partially levelled. The platform is from 1m to 2.5m above the surrounding land. Very vague traces of a perimeter bank are visible in some places. A field boundary crosses the site N-S on the E side. The site is located on a low E-W ridge in undulating ·pasture land.
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - portal tombunder 1 mi
- Megalithic structureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.