Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballyroddy, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyroddy
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.84096, -8.24262
- SMR number
- RO016-117----
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 gentle S-facing slope. Subcircular grass-covered area (dims 27.8m E-W; 24m N-S) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (Wth 4.9m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 1.1m) ESE-S which is reduced to a scarp (H 0.4m at N to 1.5m at SW) elsewhere, and an outer fosse (Wth of base 3.5m; D 0.5m) SSW-W. The entrance (Wth 1.1m) is at SE.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.