Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ceremonial enclosure
Glenballythomas,moneylea, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Glenballythomas,moneylea
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.80374, -8.31835
- SMR number
- RO021-042011-
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 an undulating landscape, including within it two slight NE-SW ridges on the Rathcroghan plateau. The cropmark of a large subcircular enclosure (diam. c. 250m NE-SW; c. 230m NW-SE) is recorded on aerial photographs (Waddell 1983, 35,38). The perimeter can be seen in interrupted sections as a slight fosse (Wth c. 2m; D 0.2m), with traces of an inner bank (Wth c. 10m) at SE (Waddell 1983, 35, No. 24; Waddell 1988, 8). It is bisected by a road (RO012-042010-) and the possible barrow (RO021-042012-) is inside the perimeter at E. (Waddell et al. 2009, 55-8)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
References
Waddell, J. 1983 Rathcroghan - a royal site in Connaught. Journal of Irish Archaeology 1, 21-46.
Waddell, J. 1988 Rathcroghan in Connacht. Emania 5, 5-18.
Waddell, J., Fenwick, J. and Barton, K. 2009 Rathcroghan: archaeological and geophysical survey in a ritual landscape. Dublin. Wordwell.
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Road - road/trackwayunder 1 mi
- Enclosure - large enclosureunder 1 mi
- Road - road/trackwayunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.