Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballylion, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballylion
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.49360, -8.15861
- SMR number
- RO045-164----
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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 SW-facing slope overlooking Lough Croan, a large turlough, c. 600m to SW. Described as a D-shaped area (dim. 32m N-S) defined by an earthen bank, with a short section of fosse at N (Gannon 1972). The monument was truncated at NW by a field bank associated with the Lurag (RO045-162----). Now the bank is barely visible as a grass-covered rise.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Linear earthworkunder 1 mi
- Barrow - mound barrowunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Architectural fragmentunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.