Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Barrinagh (castlereagh By.), County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Barrinagh (castlereagh By.)
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.71386, -8.69195
- SMR number
- RO032-005----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
At the crest of the N-facing slope of a WNW-ESE ridge. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 52m NW-SE; 51m NE-SW) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 2.2-3.8m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 0.4m at S to 1.3m at E) S-NNE separated by a flat-bottomed fosse (Wth of top 5.1-6.2m; Wth of base 2.3m at E to 4m at S and N; D 0.8m N-E to 1.6m at S) from a complete outer bank (Wth 3-4m; H 0.2m generally to 0.8m at W), which is incorporated into a field bank E-S-NNW. There is a modern entrance through the inner bank at SW, but the original entrance is not identified (max. ext. dim. 61.5m N-S).
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Road - road/trackwayunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.