Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Banada, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Banada
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.89639, -8.54400
- SMR number
- RO008-077----
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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
Situated on the S side of a very slight E-W ridge. It is visible now as a D-shaped grass-covered area (dims 30m N-S; 19m E-W) defined by a slight scarp (Wth 1.3-2m; H 0.1-0.2m) SSE-NW that is separated by a berm (at S: Wth 5m) from a second scarp (at S: Wth 5.7m; H 0.6m) that is only clearly visible at S. The enclosure is truncated by a N-S field bank at E and an E-W road bank at N, but there is no evidence of the enclosure E of the field bank. This is well known locally as the site of a rath, and it was first reported by Eugene Duffy.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload; 8 September 2020
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.