Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - ring-barrow
Ballinturly (ballymoe By.), County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballinturly (ballymoe By.)
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.70111, -8.32455
- SMR number
- RO034-019----
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
Visible on aerial photographs (GSIAP: M 66-7), and situated on a gentle W-facing slope. Circular grass-covered and slightly domed platform (diam. of top 18.6m NE-SW; 17m NW-SE; diam. of base 27.5m NE-SW; 24.2m NW-SE; H 0.6-0.8m) defined by a gently rounded fosse (Wth of top 13.4-15m; Wth of base 3.5-7m; D 1-1.8m) and outer bank (Wth 3.2-5.4m; H 0.3-0.5m) which is incorporated into a flat-topped field bank (Wth of base 4.4m; Wth of top 2m; H 1.3m) E-SSW (max. ext. diam. 53.8m NE-SW; 50.4m NW-SE). There is an entrance (Wth 12.8m) in the bank at NE. Ring-barrow (RO034-103----) is c. 100m to the NNW.
See the attached aerial view taken from the ESE.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
References
GSIAP - Geological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1973). Geological Survey. Beggars Bush, Haddington Road, Dublin 4.
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.