Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballynagoshen, County Longford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballynagoshen
- County
- Longford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.70880, -7.66933
- SMR number
- LF014-086----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 rise in pasture. A raised subcircular area (diam. 23.7m) enclosed by a low bank of earth and stone (Wth 4.8m; H 0.4m max.) with a narrow, shallow, external fosse (Wth 2.5m; D 0.25m) from NNE–S–W. A NE–SW running field boundary cuts the monument at NNE and W and while the enclosing elements to the NW of it have been levelled, their outlines are still evident. A report in 1975 (SMR file) recorded a low outer bank; it has also been levelled but its outline (Wth 2.9m) is also still visible. A break (Wth 3.3m) in the bank at ESE with traces of an accompanying causeway may mark the original entrance.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 23 November 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.