Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
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Drumdaff (ballintober South By.), County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Drumdaff (ballintober South By.)
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.67514, -8.12295
- SMR number
- RO036-041----
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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 low-lying landscape with a W-E stream c. 25m to the S. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 80m E-W; 75m N-S) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (Wth 4-5.2m; int. H 0.3-0.5m; ext. H 0.8-0.9m ESE-SW to 1.8m elsewhere), with an outer flat-bottomed fosse (Wth of top 6-7.3m; Wth of base 2.7-3.5m; D 0.3m ESE-SW to 0.9m SW-NE) which has been removed NE-ESE. There is an entrance (Wth 2.8m) at ESE.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Inscribed stone (present location)under 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.