Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballinafad, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballinafad
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.73663, -8.09846
- SMR number
- RO029-101----
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 N end of a low N-S ridge, on the gentle E-facing slope. Oval area (dims 46m N-S; 33m E-W) used as a garden, defined by an overgrown flat-topped earthen bank (Wth of base 5.3-7.5m; Wth of top 1.4-3.2m; int. H 0.4-0.9m; ext. H 1-1.5m) which is reduced to a scarp (H 1.2m) incorporated into a field bank NNW-NE, and an outer fosse (Wth of top 4-6.2m; Wth of base 2-3m; D 0.6-1m) which is re-cut as a drain and pond S-W. There is a modernised entrance (Wth 4m) at SSE. Rath (RO029-124----) is c. 210m to the S.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- House - 18th/19th centuryunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.