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
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.71199, -8.68789
- SMR number
- RO032-006----
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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
Marked faintly as an oval enclosure (dims c. 50m E-W; c. 40m N-S) on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated on a gentle N-facing slope in reclaimed pasture. No feature is visible at ground level except a shallow oval depression (dims 18m E-W; 12m N-S; D 0.6-0.8m). Rath (RO032-007----) is c 200m to the ESE.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
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- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.