Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Bracklon, County Longford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Bracklon
- County
- Longford
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.70497, -7.62242
- SMR number
- LF015-058----
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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 SE-facing slope in pasture. A raised circular area (diam. 33.2m) enclosed by a bank of earth and stone with a wide, deep, external fosse. The bank and fosse have been substantially modified and incorporated into a field boundary from SE-S-NW. Elsewhere they have been levelled but their outlines (Wth c. 4.8m and c. 4m respectively) are still identifiable. The original entrance is not recognisable.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.