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Ringfort - rath

Ballyfeeny (Ballintober North By.), County Roscommon, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Ballyfeeny, 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
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----

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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

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

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

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