Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Gallid, County Longford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gallid
- County
- Longford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.78694, -7.52346
- SMR number
- LF010-038----
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 slight knoll in otherwise low-lying pasture. A raised subcircular area (37.4m N-S; 34.3m E-W) enclosed at NNW, from NE-ENE-E, at SE and at W by a bank of earth and stone (Wth 5-6.4m; H 0.3-0.8m) and elsewhere defined by a scarp (H 1.3-1.9m), with a wide intervening fosse (Wth 7.5-10m; D 0.7-0.8m) from NE-E-NW and an outer bank (Wth 3.8m; H 0.65m) from SW-W-NW. A break (Wth c. 5m) in the bank at E marks the original entrance.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 11 January 2012
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.