Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Barnacullen, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Barnacullen
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.53890, -8.09743
- SMR number
- RO045-036----
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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 NE-facing slope. Subcircular grass-covered area with lazy beds (dims 38m E-W; 33.7m N-S) defined by a scrub-covered earthen bank (Wth 3.4-4.7m; int. H 0.6-0.7m; ext. H 1.7-2.1m) separated by a fosse (at N: Wth of top 6.5m; Wth of base 3.3m; ext. D 0.6m) which is most pronounced at S (Wth of top 8.3m; Wth of base 2m; ext. D 2.1m), from an outer bank (at N: Wth 3m; ext. H 0.65m) N-ESE which is replaced by a field wall SSE-WSW. There is an entrance (Wth 1.6m) through the inner bank and slight traces of a causeway at NE. Rath (RO045-037----) is c. 95m to the SW.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.