Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballybeg (roscommon By. Killavackan Ed), County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballybeg (roscommon By. Killavackan Ed)
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.73409, -8.08386
- SMR number
- RO029-126----
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 the W-facing slope of Slieve Bawn with a small E-W stream immediately to the S. Subcircular grass-covered area (dims 28m E-W; 25m N-S) defined by a round-topped earthen bank (Wth 3.2-3.3m; int. H 0.4-0.8m; ext. H 0.9m) and hedge NNW-E-SW, which is reduced to a scarp (H 1.1m) elsewhere. There is no visible fosse or identifiable original entrance, and there is a silage pit immediately to the W. The inland promontory fort (RO029-125----) is c. 120m to the W on the S side of the stream, and rath (RO029-111----) is c. 170m to the NE.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Promontory fort - inlandunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.