Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballyglass (castlereagh By.), County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyglass (castlereagh By.)
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.81169, -8.38607
- SMR number
- RO021-087001-
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 W edge of a plateau. Subcircular grass-covered area (dims 49m NW-SE; 44m NE-SW) defined by a fosse (Wth of top 9-11m; int. D 0.2-0.6m; ext. D 0.2-0.4m) NE-E-SW, and by a natural slope elsewhere. There are two grass-covered cairns (RO021-087002-; RO021-087003-) (diam. 8.3m; H 0.4m: diam. 6.8m; H 0.4m) in the interior which could be clearance cairns, but the enclosure has no identifiable original entrance. It is probably a rath.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of revised upload: 29 September 2017
Nearby in the register
- Cairn - clearance cairnunder 1 mi
- Cairn - clearance cairnunder 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.