Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballygarve, County Longford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballygarve
- County
- Longford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.73395, -7.70023
- SMR number
- LF014-012----
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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 wet, low-lying pasture. A report in 1975 (SMR file) recorded a raised circular area (diam. c. 22m) enclosed by a wide low bank of earth and stone with a wide shallow external fosse. The original entrance was not recognisable. The rath is very densely overgrown with scrub rendering inspection impossible.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 23 November 2011
Nearby in the register
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.