Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Bunlahy, County Longford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Bunlahy
- County
- Longford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.79574, -7.58045
- SMR number
- LF010-009----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
On a shelf of level ground on a NW-facing slope. A raised circular area (diam. c. 53m) enclosed from NE–ENE–E by a low bank of earth and stone (Wth 4.2m; H 0.3-0.5m) and from E-S-NE by a scarp (H 1.55-1.9m). An intervening fosse (Wth 5.8-6.6m; D 1-1.15m) and an outer bank (Wth 4.2m; H 1.1m) are also evident. The fosse and outer bank have been levelled from ENE–E-ESE due to the construction of a modern N–S field boundary. The outer bank is also levelled from NNW–N–ENE. The original entrance is not recognisable.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 26 November 2011
Nearby in the register
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.