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
- 53.72455, -7.71526
- SMR number
- LF014-039----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
On wet low-lying ground, c. 80m from a stream. A raised circular area (diam. c. 25m) enclosed by a much-denuded, low bank of earth and stone (Wth 3.8m; H 0.75m max.) with a shallow external fosse (Wth 3.5m; D 0.4m). A break (Wth 2.6m) in the bank at NNE with an accompanying causeway marks the original entrance. The rath is densely overgrown with scrub rendering satisfactory inspection impossible.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 23 November 2011
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 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.