Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballysundrivan, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballysundrivan
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.88038, -8.20816
- SMR number
- RO016-021001-
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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
At the W end of an E-W ridge. Circular grass-covered platform (diam. 38m N-S) defined by a scarp (H 1.9-2m) separated by a fosse (at N: Wth of top 9m; Wth of base 6.7m; D 0.6m) from an outer bank (at N: Wth 3m; int. H 0.6m; ext. H 0.6m) SW-N-SE, which has been largely re-built. The entrance (Wth 4.5m) and causeway (Wth 3-4m) are at ESE, but the outer edge of the fosse is truncated by an E-W road bank at S, and the perimeter at SW has been quarried. Cashel (RO016-021002-) was built on the mound.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.