Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballinderry, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballinderry
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.70491, -8.19968
- SMR number
- RO035-010001-
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
On a gentle N-facing slope. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 43m E-W; 42.6m N-S) defined by an earth and stone bank (Wth 4.4-6m; int. H 0.2-0.7m; ext. H 1.9-2.1m) separated by a rounded fosse (Wth of top 7-8.4m; Wth of base 1.5-3.8m; D 0.85-1.6m) from an outer bank (Wth 2.5-3.7m; H 0.2-0.45m), which is overgrown NW-E. There is an entrance through the inner (Wth 8m) and outer (Wth 7.6m) banks and a causeway (Wth 3m; H 0.25-0.4m) at NE. The inner bank has been quarried back (D 5m) WNW-NNW (max. ext. dims 60.2m E-W; 59m N-S). Rath (RO035-011----) is c. 100m to the SSE.
See the attached aerial image taken from the NW.
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
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.