Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballybrien, County Longford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballybrien
- County
- Longford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.77236, -7.52722
- SMR number
- LF010-072----
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 SW-facing slope in pasture. A raised circular area (diam. c. 34m) enclosed by a bank of earth and stone (Wth 4-5.5m; H 0.8-1.5m) with a wide, deep, intervening fosse (Wth 6-6.2m; D 1-1.5m) and outer bank (Wth 6m; H 1-1.7m) with an outer fosse (Wth 4.8m; D 0.5m), which is identifiable only from ESE–SE. A report in 1975 (SMR file) recorded that the original entrance was at S. At the centre of the interior is a large limestone boulder.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 23 November 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Barrow - pond barrowunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.