Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Ballybrogan, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballybrogan
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.53603, -8.03028
- SMR number
- RO045-065----
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
Towards the top of a S-facing slope. Circular grass-covered area (int. dims 38.4m NNW-SSE; 37.4m ENE-WSW) defined by a grass-covered stone spread (Wth 2.5-3.6m; H 0.6-0.8m) with intermittently visible facing-stones (original Wth 1.5m at NW to 2.1m at E). There is an entrance (Wth 2.6m) at SE and the interior is overlain by grass-covered field walls and grass-covered spoil mounds. Cashel (RO045-063----) is c. 120m to the WSW and cashel (RO045-066----) is c. 30m to the S.
See the attached aerial view taken from the NE
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Sweathouseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.