Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Glenballythomas, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Glenballythomas
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.79467, -8.30626
- SMR number
- RO022-057038-
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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 a rise of the S-facing slope of Rachcroghan ridge. A rectangular enclosure or annexe (dims 27.5m NE-SW; 17.7m NW-SE) defined by scarps (H 0.3-0.8m) is situated on a slight height and attached to outside of the perimeter of the outer enclosure of Relig na Ri (RO022-057035-) at SE, but its perimeter at SW is overlain by a N-S field bank. (Knox, 1914a, 35-6; Herity 1983, 132, Glenballythomas 25; Waddell 1983, 29-31; 1988, 8-10, No. 13)
This is a National Monument in state ownership: No. 473
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.
Knox, H.T. 1914 Ruins of Cruachain Ai. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 44, 1-50.
Herity, M. 1983 A survey of the royal site of Cruachain in Connacht, 1. Introduction, the monuments and topography. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 113, 121-42.
Nearby in the register
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Concentric enclosureunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.