Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Grange (ballintober South By.), County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Grange (ballintober South By.)
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.72935, -8.24947
- SMR number
- RO028-183----
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 SW-facing crest of a NW-SE ridge. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 34.3m E-W; 33.8m N-S) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 2.4-2.6m; int. H 0.1-0.2m; ext. H 0.8-1.05m) separated by a rounded fosse (Wth of top 6.2-6.6m; Wth of base 3.3-4m; D 0.95-1.2m) from an outer bank (Wth 2.5-3.6m; H 0.2-0.5m), both of which only survive NNW-E-WSW. The entrance through the inner (Wth 1.6m) and outer (Wth c. 5m) banks and the causeway (Wth 2.5m) are at SE (max. ext. diam. 57m N-S), and the outer bank is removed by a NNE-SSW field bank WSW-NW.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - mound barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.