Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballylion, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballylion
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.50315, -8.15354
- SMR number
- RO045-160----
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
On a gentle N-facing slope. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 42.3m E-W; 40.4m N-S) defined by a slight earthen bank (at E: Wth 3.4m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 1.1m) N-E which is largely reduced to a scarp with bushes (at W: H 1.1m) elsewhere, and slight traces of a fosse NNE-NE, at SW and WNW-NW. The monument is bisected by a N-S field bank and there is a large quarry inside the perimeter at SW. The original entrance is not identified.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Barrow - mound barrowunder 1 mi
- Enclosure - large enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.