Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballysundrivan, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballysundrivan
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.88139, -8.19300
- SMR number
- RO016-028001-
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 terrace overlooking lower ground immediately to the W and NW. Subcircular grass-covered area (dims 33.5m N-S; 30.5m E-W) defined by an earth and stone bank (Wth 5.3m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 1.4m) at NW and SE-S, which is reduced to a scarp (H 0.8m at E to 1.4m at W) elsewhere. The entrance (Wth 3.25), partially revetted with stone, is at ENE. A rectangular house site (RO016-028002-) (dims 9.5m ENE-WSW; 7.5m NNW-SSE) defined by a slight scarp is at the centre.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.