Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballagh (athlone North By.), County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballagh (athlone North By.)
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.52420, -8.12520
- SMR number
- RO045-081----
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
Marked as a circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 35m) on the 1837 and 1915 eds of the OS 6-inch map, and situated on a rise overlooking the N end of Lough Funshinagh, a large turlough c. 500m to the SE. This is an oval grass-covered area (dims c. 35m NE-SW; c. 25m NW-SE) defined by portion of a grass-covered bank (Wth 3.1m; int. H 0.25m; ext. H 0.9m) SW-W-NE (C 34.5m) and the perimeter may be incorporated into a field bank NE-S-SW. There are quarries in the interior and outside the perimeter at NW. There is an entrance (Wth 1.9m), possibly modern, at NW.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Linear earthworkunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.