Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballymaurice, County Longford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballymaurice
- County
- Longford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.76424, -7.48090
- SMR number
- LF011-030----
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 rise in pasture. A raised subcircular area (40m NW–SE; 36m NE–SW) enclosed from WNW–N–E by a wide low bank of earth and stone (Wth 5-8m; H 0.3-0.8m) and elsewhere defined by a scarp (H 2-3.5m) with a wide, deep, partially waterlogged fosse (Wth 6.5-9m; D 1.2-2m). A causeway (Wth 4-6m) across the fosse at E may mark the original entrance.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 23 November 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.