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
- 53.73116, -7.74610
- SMR number
- LF014-024----
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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 gentle WNW-facing slope in pasture. A slightly raised circular area (diam. 27.6m) enclosed by a bank of earth and stone with an external fosse. From SE-S-N the bank (Wth c. 3.3m) and fosse (Wth c. 2.9m) have been modified and incorporated into a field boundary. Elsewhere they have been levelled but their outlines are identifiable. The original entrance is not recognisable. A slight kink in a field boundary on the 1914 ed. of the OS 6-inch map probably mirrors the outline of the N sector of this rath.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.