Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Designed landscape feature
Ballybeg, County Longford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballybeg
- County
- Longford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.62877, -7.69880
- SMR number
- LF023-015----
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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 the N-facing slope of a low hillock in undulating pasture, with good views in all directions. An 18th-century house, named ‘Richmount Hill’, is c. 195m to the SE. Marked on the 1837 and 1914 editions of the OS 6-inch map as a large roughly subrectangular tree plantation (int. dims. c. 67m N–S ; c. 41m E–W). It is defined by an earthen bank mainly reduced to a tree-lined scarp (H 0.5m) with evidence of external stone facing visible in places. There is no evidence of an entrance. An enclosure/building (LF023-015001-) lies in the W half of the interior. (SMR file 1976)
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 13 November 2012
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.