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
- 53.73424, -8.09807
- SMR number
- RO029-124----
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
On a gentle E-facing slope with the SW-NE Scramoge river c. 50m to the SE. Oval overgrown area (dims 50m E-W; 40m N-S) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (Wth of base 7.3m; Wth of top 2.3m; int. H 0.9m; ext. H 1.4m) W-NNW which is reduced to a scarp (H 1.1m) NNW-ENE, and incorporated into a field bank elsewhere. There is no visible fosse, although there is an outer drain W-NNW and a drain inside the bank at E. There is a modern entrance (Wth 2m) at SW. Rath (RO029-101----) is c. 210m to the N.
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.