Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Balnagall, County Longford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Balnagall
- County
- Longford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.78159, -7.51172
- SMR number
- LF010-052----
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 top of a low drumlin. A raised circular area (diam. c. 35m) defined by traces of a levelled bank of earth and stone at NE and SW and otherwise defined by a scarp (H 0.3 - 1.4m), the height and steepness of which varies according to the natural slope of the drumlin. There is no trace of a fosse and the original entrance is not recognisable. The monument is divided into unequal portions by a modern NE-SW field boundary. The smaller portion, to the SE, has been levelled and is not visible at ground level.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 26 November 2011
Nearby in the register
- Enclosure - large enclosureunder 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.