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
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.71058, -8.69207
- SMR number
- RO032-008001-
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 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
At the top of a S-facing slope overlooking bell barrow (RO032-009----). Described in 1980 as an oval area (dims 50m NE-SW; 46.5m NW-SE) defined by the remains of a slight earthen bank ESE-SW and NW-NE on top of a scarp, with traces of a narrow fosse at its base NW-NNW (SMR file). It is not visible now at ground level in reclaimed pasture. Knox (1911, 309) mentions a second rath (RO032-008002-) to the SE, of which there is no evidence, and the location of which is uncertain. Barrow (RO032-009001-) is c. 80m to the SW.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
References
Knox, H.T. 1911 The Croghans and Some Connacht Raths and Cashels. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 41, 93-116, 205-40, 301-42.
SMR file - Sites and monuments record files in the National Monuments Service, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage.
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Road - road/trackwayunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Barrow - bowl-barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.