Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballyglass East, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyglass East
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.82233, -8.53895
- SMR number
- RO020-009----
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
At the crest of the W end of a low ridge. Subcircular grass-covered area (dims 34m E-W; 28m N-S) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (Wth 3.3-3.6m; int. H 0.2-0.5m; ext. H 0.8-1m) N-NE and S-W, and by an overgrown scarp (H 0.6m at E) elsewhere, with a complete fosse (Wth of base 2.2-3.1m; D 0.1-0.6m). There is no visible entrance.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- House - 18th/19th centuryunder 1 mi
- Inscribed stone (present location)under 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.