Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ecclesiastical enclosure
Ballinaboy, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballinaboy
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.64577, -8.12806
- SMR number
- RO040-014004-
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
Towards the bottom of a S-facing slope. A small rectangular enclosure (RO040-014001-) known locally as St Ronan's church is within a circular enclosure (diam. c. 60m) defined by a slight scarp (Fanning 1979-80), but neither survives.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
References
Fanning, T. 1979-80 An early Christian site at Ballinaboy, Co. Roscommon. Journal of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society 37, 90-93.
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Cairn - clearance cairnunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.