Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballyhoolivan, County Longford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyhoolivan
- County
- Longford
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.72955, -7.66086
- SMR number
- LF014-045----
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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 NE-facing slope in pasture. A raised circular area (diam. 25.2m) enclosed by a low bank of earth and stone (Wth 4.7m; H 0.2-0.8m) with a wide, shallow, intervening fosse (Wth 6.2m; D 0.3m) and an outer bank (Wth 4.8m; H 0.3m). From SSE-W-NNE the inner bank has been modified and incorporated into a field boundary and the fosse and outer bank have been levelled. A break (Wth 2.1m) in the bank at SSE marks the original entrance. Within the interior are a number of quarry holes and outcropping rock.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 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.