Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - pond barrow
Ballybrien, County Longford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballybrien
- County
- Longford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.77028, -7.53312
- SMR number
- LF010-073----
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 hillock in undulating pasture with good views in all directions. Depicted as ‘Mass Fort’ on the townland map of Ballybrien surveyed c. 1789 (NLI, MS 21 F. 40 (24)). A circular, concave depression (diam. 38.5m) is enclosed by a wide, flat-topped, tree-lined bank of earth and stone (base Wth 9.5–14m; top Wth 3m; int. H 2–3m; ext. H 1–1.5m) with traces of a shallow, external fosse. The outer face of the bank was faced with drystone masonry possibly in the 18th or 19th century. The monument was used as a penal mass site (O’Donovan 2003, 17). See also (LF011-008----), which has similar morphological features.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan, Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 26 November 2012
References
NLI, MS 21 - National Library of Ireland, Maps of the lands in the baronies of Ardagh, Granard, Longford, Moydow, Co. Longford. 1755 to early 19th century. Brownrigg, J., Longfield, J. and others. MS 21.F.40 (16-29). Dublin.
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 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.