Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballymakeegan, County Longford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballymakeegan
- County
- Longford
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.71074, -7.77707
- SMR number
- LF014-061----
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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 SSE-facing slope in pasture. A raised circular area (diam. 24.4m) enclosed by a wide, low bank of earth and stone (Wth 6.9m; H 0.1-1.3m) with a shallow external fosse (Wth 4.3m; D 0.9m). It is divided into unequal portions by a NNW-SSE field boundary with accompanying drains. The smaller portion, to the WSW, has been levelled. However, the fosse survives. A narrow break (Wth 2.1m) in the bank at SSE with traces of a possible accompanying causeway may mark the original entrance.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.