Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Birrinagh, County Longford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Birrinagh
- County
- Longford
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.89963, -7.60571
- SMR number
- LF003-002----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
On an ESE-facing slope in pasture. A raised circular area (diam. 36.1m) enclosed by a substantial bank of earth and stone (Wth 5.7m; H 0.4-0.8m) with a wide, deep, partially waterlogged external fosse (Wth 3.4m; D 1.55m). From NNE-NE-E a modern laneway occupies a portion of the fosse and it has been largely infilled from ESE-S-WSW. A report in 1990 (SMR file) recorded that the original entrance may have been at SE. This part of the rath is very densely overgrown with scrub. The interior slopes appreciably from WNW to ESE.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Megalithic tomb - portal tombunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Bawnunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.