Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Ballyglass Lower, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyglass Lower
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.68080, -8.28693
- SMR number
- RO035-053002-
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 circular embanked feature (diam c. 30m) with a central mound (diam. c. 5m) on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated on a NNE-facing slope, immediately N of Fort George House. Circular area (diam. c. 20m) defined by a scarp (H 0.2-0.6m). It may have been a tree-ring. Enclosure (RO035-053001-) is immediately to the NW and enclosure (RO035-052----) is c. 130m to the SW.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Cairn - clearance cairnunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.