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Ringfort - cashel

Glenballythomas, County Roscommon, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - cashel, Glenballythomas, 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
Glenballythomas
County
Roscommon
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
53.79344, -8.30761
SMR number
RO022-057039-

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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

In a slight fold of the S-facing slope of Rathcroghan ridge. Subcircular grass-covered area (int. dims 45.3m E-W; 39m N-S) defined by a grass-covered earth and stone spread (Wth 3-5m; H 0.2-0.5m) with internal and external facing-stones (at N: original Wth 2m). The stone-lined entrance (Wth 1.6m) is at SE. The site is surrounded by the relict field banks of the field system (RO022-057003-), and one N-S field bank overlies the interior. Souterrain (RO022-057040-) is just outside the perimeter at WSW, and the concentric enclosure (RO022-057035-) is c. 100m to the N. (Knox 1914a, 29-30, cashel No. 4; Herity 1983, Fig. 37, Glenballythomas 26; Waddell 1983, 31, No. 15)

This is a National Monument in state ownership: No. 473

See the attached aerial image taken from the E.

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 24 August 2010

References

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.

Knox, H.T. 1914 Ruins of Cruachain Ai. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 44, 1-50.

Waddell, J. 1983 Rathcroghan - a royal site in Connaught. Journal of Irish Archaeology 1, 21-46.

Nearby in the register

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

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