Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Behy (boyle By., Ballyformoyle Ed), County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Behy (boyle By., Ballyformoyle Ed)
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.01331, -8.16705
- SMR number
- RO003-063----
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
Marked faintly as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 40m) on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map and situated toward the bottom of the S-facing slope of a drumlin. Circular grass-covered but poached platform (diam. 33.5m N-S; 32m E-W) defined by a scarp (H 0.6-0.8m) E-S-NW, and a field bank elsewhere. There is no visible fosse or entrance. Rath (RO004-042----) is c. 120m to the SE.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.