Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Barnacawley, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Barnacawley
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.84197, -8.51325
- SMR number
- RO014-064----
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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 steep S-facing slope of a NW-SE ridge. Described in 1995 as an oval grass-covered area (dims 36m E-W; 27.5m N-S) defined by an earthen bank (at N: Wth 3.1m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 0.5m) NNW-SE and a scarp (H 1.3m at S) SE-SW. The site was truncated by a NNE-SSW field bank and drain at W, and the perimeter was incorporated into a field bank at E. There was no visible fosse or entrance. Part of the bank at N (L c. 10m), and portions of the field banks at W and E were later removed.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.