Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - unclassified
Ballymacool, County Donegal, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballymacool
- County
- Donegal
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- NULL
- Coordinates
- 54.95313, -7.75890
- SMR number
- DG053-024----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1881 "Ireland to Illustrate the Military Condition of the Country." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
There is now no trace of the single-ringed 'Fort' marked on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map. A previous record (NMI) suggests it was 150 ft. in diameter. It is located on the SE slope of a hill in good land.
Nearby in the register
- Mass-rockunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.