Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballinvilla, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballinvilla
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.91465, -8.17113
- SMR number
- RO010-069----
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 level landscape overlooking drained bogland to the S. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 34m E-W; 32.5m N-S) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 4m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 0.8m) ESE-SE and elsewhere by a scarp (H 0.3m at NE to 1.7m at S), with a fosse (Wth of top 5-5.3m; Wth of base 2-3m; D 0.2-0.45m) S-WSW and NW-N. There is no visible entrance. A modern field bank and drain approaches from the NE, curves into the interior, and extends off to the ESE. Rath (RO010-068----) is c. 200m to the NW.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Concentric enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.