Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Brickeens, County Longford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Brickeens
- County
- Longford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.66074, -7.82342
- SMR number
- LF018-041----
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 but prominent hillock. Depicted as a circular enclosure with the designation 'Fort' on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. A raised circular area (diam. 26.2m) defined by a scarp (H 0.8-1.7m). There is no trace of a fosse. A field boundary skirts it from SW-W-WNW. The original entrance is not recognisable. The monument is densely overgrown with scrub. A rath (LF018-040----) lies c. 33m to the WNW.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 18 January 2012
Nearby in the register
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.