Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballymore, County Longford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballymore
- County
- Longford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Lismacaffry Fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Lismacaffry Fort
- Coordinates
- 53.77800, -7.55515
- SMR number
- LF010-042001-
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 low rise on a W-facing slope. A raised circular area (diam. 38m) defined by a scarp (H 2-2.3m) with a very wide deep intervening fosse (Wth 7.1-8.3m; D 1-1.3m) and an outer bank (Wth 5.8-6m; H 1.7-1.8m). A report in 1975 (SMR file) recorded that the original entrance was at SE. A possible souterrain (LF010-042002-) lies within the interior.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 23 November 2011
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.