Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Ballynanultagh, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballynanultagh
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.97649, -8.36312
- SMR number
- RO005-009----
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
On a shelf of a SE-facing slope of the foothills of the Curlew Mountains. Circular grass-covered area which is overgrown at SW (int. diam. 28m ENE-WSW; 27.5m NNW-SSE) defined by a rebuilt drystone wall (Wth 1.5-1.9m; int. H 0.5m at E to 1.9m at S; ext. H 1.2m at E to 1.9m at S). There are traces of the original wall externally at NW, and internally as a grass-covered stone spread (Wth 2.5m; int. H 0.5m) E of a NNW-SSE field wall which overlies the interior towards the perimeter at E. There is a modern entrance (Wth 2m) at S.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Settlement platformunder 1 mi
- Settlement platformunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.