Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballymurray (athlone North By.),curry (athlone North By.), County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballymurray (athlone North By.),curry (athlone North By.)
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.59507, -8.11509
- SMR number
- RO042-009----
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 slight NNE-facing slope above the flood-plain of the W-E Hind River. D-shaped grass-covered area (dims 35.4m N-S; 27.6m E-W) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 3.9-4.5m; int. H 0.85-1.05m; ext. H 0.95-1m) with some bushes which is truncated by a N-S field bank and townland boundary with Ballymurray at W. There is no visible fosse, but the entrance (Wth 1.9m) is at SE. There is a quarry in the interior and a large quarry outside the perimeter ENE-SE.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Meeting-houseunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.