Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Banada, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Banada
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.89407, -8.55200
- SMR number
- RO008-041----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
On a level landscape on the N bank of the SE-NW River Lung with the river immediately to the SW. Circular grass-covered platform (diam. 31m NE-SW; 29.5m NW-SE) defined by a scarp (H 0.6-1.2m), with traces of a fosse at SE (Wth of base 5.5m; D 0.1m) and NW (Wth of base 6.5m; D 0.3m). There is no visible entrance. Rath (RO008-042----) is c. 100m to the NE.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.