Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballyfeeny (ballintober North By.), County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyfeeny (ballintober North By.)
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not ineicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.79304, -8.04568
- SMR number
- RO023-221----
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
Situated on a slight rise in a low-lying level landscape at the W foot of a NNE-SSW ridge, with a S-N section of the Scramoge River just to the W. This is a circular grass-covered area (diam. 31m NNE-SW) defined by an earthen bank (Wth of base 3.5m; int. H 0.8m; ext. H 0.9m) and outer fosse (Wth of top 4.5m; ext. D 0.2m) SE-SW with slight traces of a low bank (Wth 3.5m; int. H 0.1m; ext. H 0.2m) N-ENE (L c. 15m) but the edges of the monument have been removed at E and W. An entrance is not identified.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 3 June 2020
Nearby in the register
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.