Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballymurray (Athlone North By.), County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballymurray (Athlone North By.)
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.60300, -8.12516
- SMR number
- RO042-173----
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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)
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The National Monuments Service's description
On the floodplain of the Hind river, c. 50m from its canalised S bank. D-shaped grass-covered area (dims 32.3m NW-SE; 12m NE-SW) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (Wth of base 4m; Wth of top 1m; int. H 0.8m; ext. H 2m) SSW-W, reduced to a low scarp SSE-SSW and W-NW, accompanied by a flat-bottomed fosse (Wth of top 5m; Wth of base 2m; D 0.8m) S-W. It is truncated by a WNW-ESE railway to the N and by a field bank at E. There is no identifiable original entrance.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Meeting-houseunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.