Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Earthwork
Ballyconboy, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyconboy
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Knockanstanly
- Latest-edition OS map
- Knockanstanly
- Coordinates
- 53.81300, -8.31038
- SMR number
- RO022-056015-
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
Marked as a circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 20m) on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and as a fragment of a bank (C c. 30m) E-S-W on the 1927. ed. Situated at the S end of a low N-S ridge on the summit of Rathcroghan plateau. Described as a rectangular enclosure of c. 1 ha. (c. 2.5 acres) defined by an earthen bank (Wth c. 2m) with an inner ditch or fosse (Wth c. 1.8m; D c. 0.75m) and an outer fosse (Wth c. 3.5m; D c. 0.8m) at N that had an entrance through it. At S there was a double bank (Knox 1914a, 16). This is probably a description of fields which are still extant, but the mapped feature is not now visible at ground level in pasture.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
References
Knox, H.T. 1914 Ruins of Cruachain Ai. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 44, 1-50.
Nearby in the register
- Road - road/trackwayunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ceremonial enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.