Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballymacwilliam, County Longford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballymacwilliam
- County
- Longford
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.73561, -7.75287
- SMR number
- LF014-006----
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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
At the highest point of a prominent NW-SE ridge in pasture. A report in 1975 (SMR file) recorded that a slightly raised circular area (diam. 39.4m) was enclosed by a low bank of earth and stone and an external fosse. The bank has since been levelled but a poorly defined scarp (max. H 0.5m) is evident from N-E-W. From W-N only its outline is identifiable. The fosse (Wth 3m; D 0.22m) survives from SE-S-NW. The original entrance is not recognisable. A pronounced kink in a field boundary on the 1914 ed. of the OS 6-inch map probably mirrors the outline of the rath from roughly SSE-NNW.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.