Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - ring-barrow
Ballyboughan, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyboughan
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.63947, -8.21192
- SMR number
- RO039-038----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
On a gentle SE-facing slope. Oval overgrown platform (dims c. 30m E-W; c. 22m N-S; H 0.8m) defined by a rounded fosse (Wth of base 4m), and an outer earth and stone bank (Wth 2.6m; int. H 0.75m; ext. H 0.15m) ENE-WNW which has been truncated at N by a WNW-ESE field bank and hedge. There is no identifiable original entrance.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Enclosure - large enclosureunder 1 mi
- Wellunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.