Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballyrevagh, County Longford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyrevagh
- County
- Longford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.58570, -7.93303
- SMR number
- LF021-053----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
On a gentle SSE-facing slope. A raised subcircular area (c. 55m NNW-SSE; c. 52m ENE-WSW) enclosed by a much-denuded, low bank of earth and stone (Wth 1.3-5.1m; H 1.3m max.) with a poorly preserved, shallow external fosse (Wth 3.7m; D 0.4m). From SSE-S-WNW modern drystone-walling has been applied to both faces of the bank and the fosse has been largely infilled. From NW-N-NE there is a modern field boundary at the outer lip of the fosse. A break (Wth 2.3m) in the bank at SSE probably marks the original entrance. The interior is densely overgrown with scrub rendering inspection impossible.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 26 November 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
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- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.