Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballinphuill (frenchpark By.), County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballinphuill (frenchpark By.)
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.88587, -8.51353
- SMR number
- RO014-016----
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
Just off the top of a low knoll on the S-facing slope. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 33m E-W; 30.8m N-S) defined by a gapped earthen bank (at N: Wth 3.8m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 1.6m) separated by a fosse (Wth of base 3.6m; D 1.2-1.6m) from an overgrown outer bank (Wth 3.7-4.3m; ext. H 0.2m at N to 1.6m at S), which is incorporated into a road bank NE-SE and a field bank SE-SW. The entrance could not be identified.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.