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
- 53.54124, -8.12691
- SMR number
- RO045-018----
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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 shelf of a gentle NE-facing slope. Faint traces of a grass-covered D-shaped area (dims c. 31m E-W; c. 30m N-S) defined by a broad bank or slight scarp (H c. 0.2m) on the straight E side, straight stone-faced earthen field banks at S and W, and a slight scarp W-N. Raths (RO045-016----; RO045-017----; RO045-019---) are c. 180m to the NW, 200m to the NNW and 60m to the SE respectively.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.