Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Bellaneeny, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Bellaneeny
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.40696, -8.15772
- SMR number
- RO051-024----
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
At the N end of a slight N-S ridge. Subcircular overgrown area (dims 32m E-W; 26.5m N-S) defined by a stone spread over an earthen core (Wth 4.5-5m; int. H 0.4-0.6m; ext. H 0.3-0.8m) N-E-S, surviving best at NE but reduced to a scarp (max. H 0.4m) S-W-N. There is no visible fosse, but the stone-lined entrance (Wth 1.5m) is at SE and there is a clearance cairn just E of the centre. The monument is bisected by a N-S field wall. It was extant until at least 2005 (OSAP) but it has been removed since then.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 23 April, 2013
References
OSAP - Ordnance Survey Aerial Photographs. Photographic collection. Ordnance Survey of Ireland. Dublin.
Nearby in the register
- Road - road/trackwayunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.