Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballagh (ballintober North By.), County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballagh (ballintober North By.)
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.89231, -8.07062
- SMR number
- RO011-120----
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 the E-facing slope of a drumlin. Oval grass-covered area (dims 32m N-S; 26.5m E-W) defined by an earthen bank and hedge (Wth 4.5m at S to 5.8m at N; int. H 0.2m at S to 0.85m at N; ext. H 1.45-1.6m) separated by a fosse (Wth of top 5.2-6.3m; D 0.5-0.85m) from an outer earthen bank (Wth 4.5m; int. H 0.2-0.65m; ext. H 0.1-0.65m), which survives N-SE and at SW. The entrance (Wth 3.5m) and causeway are at E. An NE-SW field bank overlies the fosse and outer bank at S.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.