Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Ballyglass Lower, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyglass Lower
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.68107, -8.28742
- SMR number
- RO035-053001-
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
Marked as a small circular wooded feature (diam. c. 20m) on the 1837 and 1928 eds of the OS 6-inch map, and situated on a gentle N-facing slope, c. 50m NW of Fort George House. Described as a circular area (diam. 16m) defined by an earthen bank, a fosse and an outer bank with some evidence of an entrance and causeway at N (Gannon 1972). Only a fragment of the bank (Wth 3.3m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 1.4m), fosse (Wth of top 6.2m; Wth of base 2.2m; D 1m) and outer bank (Wth 3.8m; ext. H 1.25m) survives at E. It may have been a tree-ring. Enclosure (RO035-053002-) is just to the SE and enclosure (RO035-052----) is c. 130m to the SW.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
References
Gannon, A. 1972 Archaeological survey of Roscommon. Unpublished typed index cards prepared for Roscommon County Council.
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