Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballaghabawbeg, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballaghabawbeg
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.74787, -8.29733
- SMR number
- RO028-118----
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
Visible on aerial photograph (OSAP/4200), and situated at the crest of the NE-facing slope of a NW-SE ridge. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 31m N-S; 30.7m E-W) defined by a scarp (H 0.2m at N to 0.6m at W). There is no visible fosse or identifiable original entrance. Rath (RO028-119001-) is immediately to the S.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
References
OSAP - Ordnance Survey Aerial Photographs. Photographic collection. Ordnance Survey of Ireland. Dublin.
Nearby in the register
- Cairn - clearance cairnunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.