Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Moyglass (ballintober North By., Ballygarden Ed), County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Moyglass (ballintober North By., Ballygarden Ed)
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.80689, -8.08089
- SMR number
- RO023-093001-
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
On the crest of a low NW-SE ridge. Subcircular grass and scrub-covered area (dims 33.6m N-S; 29.6m E-W) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (Wth 4.3-5.2m; int. H 0.2-0.6m; ext. H 0.5m generally to 1.8m at E) that has been reduced to a scarp (H 0.8m) N-E, and an outer fosse (Wth of top 5.8m; Wth of base 3.1m; D 0.3m at N to 0.8m at E) W-N-E which is partly filled with spoil. The original entrance is not identified.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.