Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballyreaghan, County Longford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyreaghan
- County
- Longford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.76557, -7.61409
- SMR number
- LF010-109----
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 very low rise in undulating pasture. A raised subcircular area (27m E-W; 25.5m N-S) defined by a scarp (H 0.8-1.35m). At the base of the scarp from NNW-N is a fosse (Wth 2.5m; D 0.2-0.3m). From SW-W-NW it has been infilled but its outline is still identifiable. A modern roadway skirts the base of the scarp at SE. Also at SE a portion of the monument has been quarried away. The original entrance is not recognisable.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 23 November 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Religious house - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.