Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballyhoolivan, County Longford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyhoolivan
- County
- Longford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.72747, -7.66124
- SMR number
- LF014-046----
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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 hillock in rolling pasture. A report in 1975 (SMR file) recorded a raised subcircular area (c. 45m NW-SE; c. 44m NE-SW) enclosed by a low bank of earth and stone with an external fosse. The original entrance may have been either at NNE or NNW. At the centre of the interior was an area of outcropping rock. The rath is not visible at ground level.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.