Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballymacroly, County Longford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballymacroly
- County
- Longford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.76745, -7.52976
- SMR number
- LF010-075----
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 terrace above a stream to its N and E. A raised subcircular area (40.5m E–W; 37.7m N–S) enclosed from SE–S–N by a low bank of earth and stone (Wth 4.8-5.8m; H 0.3-0.5m) and elsewhere defined by a scarp (H 1.8-2m). A shallow intervening fosse (Wth 6.3-7.4m; D 0.7-0.8m) and an outer bank (Wth 5.4-5.8m; H 1-1.4m) survive from ESE–S–NW. Elsewhere they have been levelled but the outline of the fosse may still be traced. A report in 1975 (SMR file) recorded that the original entrance was at E.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 23 November 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Barrow - pond 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.