Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Brackloon (athlone North By.), County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Brackloon (athlone North By.)
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.63359, -8.25013
- SMR number
- RO039-086----
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
Visible as a D-shaped feature truncated by the E-W railway at S on aerial photographs (GSIAP: M 143-4), and situated on a slight rise in a level landscape. Subcircular grass-covered area (dims c. 35m E-W; c. 27m N-S) defined by a slight scarp (H 0.1-0.2m). It is visible as a vegetation mark on the OSI aerial images (2000, 2005).
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
References
OSAP - Ordnance Survey Aerial Photographs. Photographic collection. Ordnance Survey of Ireland. Dublin.
GSIAP - Geological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1973). Geological Survey. Beggars Bush, Haddington Road, Dublin 4.
Nearby in the register
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.