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
- 53.69351, -8.28679
- SMR number
- RO035-029----
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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 subcircular 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. Oval grass-covered area (dims 63.7m N-S; 49.7m E-W) defined by a low scarp (H 0.1-0.3m) with no evidence of a fosse. The perimeter has been cut back SSW-WSW and the monument is bisected by a relict NNE-SSW field bank (Wth 3m; H 0.2m). Rath (RO035-028----) is c. 30m to the W.
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.