What is recorded here
Fairy fort in Ballyhoolivan, County Longford: a low hillock in rolling pasture where a 1975 report measured a subcircular rath about 45m by 44m, bounded by earth, stone and an outside ditch, with rock exposing itself at the centre. The entrance may have faced NNE or NNW, but the rath has largely sunk from sight, leaving only grass, memory and the shape of old hands beneath the surface.
On a low hillock in rolling pasture. A report in 1975 (SMR file) recorded a raised subcircular area (c. 45m NW-SE; c. 44m NE-SW) enclosed by a low bank of earth and stone with an external fosse. The original entrance may have been either at NNE or NNW. At the centre of the interior was an area of outcropping rock. The rath is not visible at ground level.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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