Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Corraree And Ballygatta, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Corraree And Ballygatta
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.40737, -8.11853
- SMR number
- RO051-036----
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
In a low-lying position in an undulating landscape. Raised subcircular grass-covered platform (dims 26.5m N-S; 23m E-W) defined by a scarp (H 1-1.2m) with slight traces of a bank (at N: int. H 0.25m) on the lip of the platform W-N-ESE. There are slight traces of a fosse (Wth 2.8-3.4m) at the base of the scarp, but there is no identifiable original entrance.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Barrow - mound barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.