Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballyglass (athlone North By.), County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyglass (athlone North By.)
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.55067, -8.12661
- SMR number
- RO042-085----
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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
Marked as a circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 40m) on the 1837 and 1915 eds of the OS 6-inch map, and situated on a shoulder of the ENE-facing slope of a NW-SE spur. Rectangular grass-covered, but poached area (int. dims 33.8m NE-SW; 31m NW-SE) defined by an earthen bank with some bushes (Wth 3.8-4.6m; int. H 0.9-1.2m; ext. H 0.85-1.55m), and a flat-bottomed fosse or moat (Wth of top 3.3m; Wth of base 1.2m; D 0.4m) at the W end of the SW side. There are five entrances, any of which might be original, but the enclosure does not show any signs of alteration into its present shape. Nevertheless, it is probably a rath and the rath (RO042-084----) is c. 150m to the WNW.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of revised upload: 20 September 2018
Nearby in the register
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.