Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballygilchrist, County Longford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballygilchrist
- County
- Longford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.78163, -7.53775
- SMR number
- LF010-046----
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 knoll in undulating pasture. Depicted as a large circular enclosure with the designation 'Fort' on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. A raised oval-shaped area (c. 42m NNE-SSW; c. 36m ENE-WSW) defined from ENE-S-NW by a scarp (H 1-1.5m). From SSW-W-NW the scarp has been modified and incorporated into a field boundary and from NW-N-NNE the monument is clipped by a roadway. The original entrance is not recognisable. A report in 1975 (SMR file) recorded traces of an external fosse, which are no longer identifiable. The monument is densely overgrown with scrub.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 31 January 2013
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 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.