Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballyhammon, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyhammon
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.75955, -8.09590
- SMR number
- RO029-074----
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
Towards the bottom of a gentle N-facing slope with a W-E section of a SW-NE river c. 80m to the N. Subcircular grass-covered area (dims 35m E-W; 30m N-S) defined by an overgrown flat-topped earthen bank (Wth of base 5-6m;Wth of top 3m; int. H 0.4-1.1m; ext. H 1.4m) and rounded fosse (Wth of top 4.4m; Wth of base 2.4-2.6m; D 0.6-0.7m), with the remains of an outer bank (Wth 2.2m; H 0.8m) NW-NE. Gannon (1972) records an entrance (Wth 2.2m) at S which is now widened (Wth 4m).
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
References
Gannon, A. 1972 Archaeological survey of Roscommon. Unpublished typed index cards prepared for Roscommon County Council.
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.