Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballymacfarrane, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballymacfarrane
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.64464, -8.33421
- SMR number
- RO038-004----
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
On a gentle S-facing slope. Subcircular grass-covered area (dims 32.8m ENE-SW; 28m NNW-SSE) defined by a flat-topped earthen bank (Wth of base 5m at S to 8-9m generally; Wth of top 2.6m at S to 4-4.5m generally; int. H 0.1-0.2m; ext. H 0.2-0.4m generally to 0.8m at WSW) ENE-W-NNE with no visible fosse. There is an entrance (Wth 8m) at NE. The Dublin to Ballina railway line (aligned WNW-ESE) is just to the N and two trenches have been dug immediately to the E (L c. 50m; Wth of top 6.2m; D to E 0.2m; D to W 4m) and W (L c. 50m; Wth of top 10m; D to E 1m; D to W 0.8m). Fulacht fia (RO038-045----) is c. 80m to the SSW.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.