Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - unclassified
Dalgan, County Offaly, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dalgan
- County
- Offaly
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.23782, -7.31277
- SMR number
- OF026-006----
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
Large bivallate ringfort (max dims c. 90.7m N-S) with an almost circular low platform (c. 52m N-S) enclosed by a very slight inner bank, a wide inner fosse and a substantial outer bank with the faint remains of an outer fosse. Possible entrance at modern gap in SE.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Offaly' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload: 23 May 2011
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Bawnunder 1 mi
- Castle - motteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.