Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballybeg (roscommon By., Ogulla Ed), County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballybeg (roscommon By., Ogulla Ed)
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.77040, -8.28460
- SMR number
- RO028-013001-
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 a slight SE-facing slope in an undulating landscape. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 33.4m NE-SW; 31.2m NW-SE) defined by an earthen bank with some bushes (Wth 6-8m; int. H 0.5-0.9m; ext. H 1.4-1.6m generally to 2.3m at SE), and a fosse (Wth of top 9-9.4m; Wth of base 2.5-4.5m; D 0.3-0.9m) W-N-SE. The original entrance cannot be identified.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- House - 18th/19th centuryunder 1 mi
- Road - road/trackwayunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Religious house - Franciscan Third Order Regularunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.