Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Embanked enclosure
Ballinphuill (boyle By.), County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballinphuill (boyle By.)
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.96147, -8.32080
- SMR number
- RO005-041----
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 slight ridge in a low-lying landscape surrounded by hills. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 52.5m N-S; 49.5m E-W) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 8-10m; int. H 1-1.2m; ext. H 0.9-1.1m). There are entrances at NE (Wth 14m) and SW (Wth 18.5m), which allowed an old stream, visible as a band of rushes (Wth 6m), to flow through the interior. A N-S field bank and drain overlie the E part of the site, distorting the bank to its E. (Stout 1991, 283; Condit 1993, 16)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
References
Condit, T. 1993 Ritual enclosures near Boyle, Co. Roscommon. Archaeology Ireland 7 (1), 14-16.
Stout, G. 1991 The embanked enclosures of the Boyne region. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 91C, 245-84.
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Road - road/trackwayunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.