What is recorded here

Indicated is a fairy fort or stone ringfort in Ballagh (athlone North By.),carrigan Beg, County Roscommon, Ireland. Indicated is a D-shaped stone ringfort on the crest of Red Hill, positioned between Lough Ree and the turlough Lough Funshinagh. Its grass-covered boundary measures roughly 25.6m by 25m, though a field wall now cuts through the northwest section. Another fort called Rath sits 60m to the northwest.

On the crest of the SE-facing slope of Red Hill with Lough Ree c. 6km to the E and Lough Funshinagh, a large turlough, c. 600m to the W. This is a D-shaped grass-covered area (int. dims 25.6m ENE-WSW; c. 25m NNW-SSE) defined by a grass-covered stone spread (Wth 3.4-5m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 0.4m) NNE-S-W which is truncated by a NE-SW field wall and townland boundary with Ballagh at NW, and it does not survive visibly to the NW of it. There is no identifiable original entrance. Rath (RO045-090----) is c. 60m to the NW. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

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