Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballymore East Or Corbally, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballymore East Or Corbally
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.94274, -8.32058
- SMR number
- RO009-006----
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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
At the bottom of a S-facing slope. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 36.5m N-S; 34.5m E-W) defined by an earthen bank (at N: Wth 2m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 0.1m; at W: Wth 4m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 0.9m) and fosse (Wth of base 2m; D 0.2m) W-NE, and by a scarp (H 0.6-0.7m) elsewhere. There is no visible entrance. Raths (RO009-005003-; RO009-005002-) are c. 180m and c. 185 to the NNW and N respectively.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Barrow - pond barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.