Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballymacurly South, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballymacurly South
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.69354, -8.28814
- SMR number
- RO035-028----
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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 as a circular feature on aerial photographs (GSIAP: M 7-8), and situated at the SE-facing crest at the SE end of a low NW-SE ridge. D-shaped, grass-covered area (dims 29.3m NE-SW; 25.7m NW-SE) defined by a rounded fosse (Wth of top 7.7-10m; Wth of base 3.2m; int. D 0.5-1.1m; ext. D 0.4-0.5m). The monument is truncated by a WNW-ESE field bank and hedge at S and does not survive S of this feature. The perimeter is slightly quarried at NNE and there is no identifiable original entrance. Rath (035-029---) is c. 30m to the E.
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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.