Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Brianstown, County Longford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Brianstown
- County
- Longford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.73887, -7.86816
- SMR number
- LF013-002----
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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 prominent NW–SE ridge in pasture. A raised circular area (diam. 51.1m) enclosed by a levelled bank of earth and stone (Wth 4.4m; max. H 0.15m) with a partially infilled, wide, low, intervening fosse (Wth 5.9m; D 0.2m) and an outer bank (Wth 4.3m; H 0.2m), which has been modified and incorporated into a field boundary. Traces of an outer fosse (Wth c. 3m) are also evident, though it is largely infilled from WSW–W–ENE and from ENE–E–SSE it is incorporated into a modern field drain. From SSE–S–WSW it is overlain by a disused laneway. The original entrance is not recognisable.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 26 November 2011
Nearby in the register
- Country houseunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 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.