Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Bellacagher, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Bellacagher
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.68303, -8.37201
- SMR number
- RO034-054----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
Towards the SE end of a low WNW-ESE ridge. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 37m N-S; 35.3m E-W) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 4.6-5.4m; int. H 0.2-0.7m; ext. H 1.3-1.6m) WNW-N-ESE which is reduced to a scarp (H 1.2m at S) elsewhere, and a rounded fosse (Wth of top 6.5-7m; Wth of base 2.2-2.8m; D 0.2-0.7m) SSW-N-SSE. The entrance may have been at SE where the fosse is absent (L 5m), and the interior is overlain by a N-S field bank of field system (RO034-099----) (max. ext. dims 67.7m E-W; 63.8m N-S). Rath (RO034-053----) is c. 130m to the WNW.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.