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Ballymore
Roscommon, Republic of Ireland ยท Atlas IR1096
Location
- Atlas number
- IR1096 (1096)
- Country
- Republic of Ireland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Roscommon
- Historic county
- Roscommon
- Parish, community, or townland
- Ballymore
- Latitude
- 53.73378
- Longitude
- -8.08651
- Altitude
- 85 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 1, SW 0, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.13 ha
- Footprint
- 0.26 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory
- Aspect
- west
- Land use
- woodland and pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1842); Earthwork Survey (1906); Other (1996)
Identifiers
- HER
- Archaeological Survey of Ireland SMR Database RO029-125
- National record
- record RO 029
- Wikidata
- Q31077344
Sources