Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Road - road/trackway
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
- 53.74774, -8.30259
- SMR number
- RO028-121005-
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
At the bottom of a SW-facing slope at the head of a SE-NW valley and visible on aerial photograph (OS/4200). The perimeter at N of enclosure (RO028-121001-) borders a grass-covered roadway (Wth 7.5m; L c. 70m E-W) defined by overgrown earthen banks (Wth 1.7m; H 0.5m-0.7m), with a ditch (Wth of base 1.4m; D 0.2m) outside the bank at N.
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
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Sweathouseunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.