Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Moated site
Ballyculleen, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyculleen
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.91098, -8.14711
- SMR number
- RO011-065----
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 flat, low-lying landscape on the E bank of a NW-SE section of the SW-NE Killukin River which is just to the W of the SW corner. Wedge-shaped grass-covered area (dims 35.5m N-S; 17.1m E-W at N to 25m E-W at S) with rounded SE and SW corners, defined by earthen banks (Wth 5.6m at W to 6.9m at S; int. H 0.3-0.5m; ext. H 1.2-1.6m) on the S and W sides and the S end of the E side, and by scarps (H 0.65m) elsewhere. There is an outer fosse or moat (Wth of base 4.5m; D 0.3-0.55m) at the N ends of the E and W sides with an outer earthen bank (Wth 5.8m; int. H 0.9m; ext. H 0.6m) at the N end of the E side. There is no visible entrance.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.