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Ringfort - rath

Ballyglass (Castlereagh By.), County Roscommon, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Ballyglass, County Roscommon, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

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-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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