What is recorded here

Indicated is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Ballaghabawbeg, County Roscommon, Ireland. The circular grass-covered area sits just south of a ridge crest and measures about 25.6 metres from northeast to southwest. An earthen bank surrounds the interior, with a wider section appearing toward the northeast. A flat-bottomed ditch runs outside the bank on the northern side, while a ten-metre quarried gap breaks the perimeter at the northwest.

Just S of the crest of a NW-SE ridge. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 25.6m NE-SW; c. 24m NW-SE) defined by an earthen bank (at SW: Wth 3m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 1.1m) which is augmented (at NE: Wth 3.5m; int. H 1.3m; ext. H 2m) NNE-ESE, and an outer flat-bottomed fosse (Wth of top 8.2m; Wth of base 3.5m; D 0.7m) N-ENE. There is no identifiable original entrance, and the perimeter is quarried (diam. 10m) at NW. Rath (RO028-0119001-) is c. 80m to the NW. See the attached aerial image taken from the S. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

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