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Ringfort - rath

Legnanornoge, County Donegal, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Legnanornoge, County Donegal, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Legnanornoge
County
Donegal
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
54.57530, -8.08172
SMR number
DG104-012----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1881 map "Ireland to Illustrate the Military Condition of the Country." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1881 · Ireland to Illustrate the Military Condition of the Country. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 4. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1922 · Ireland - northern section. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

In pasture, located on the steep NW-facing slope of a high hill. This possible rath is not marked on any edition of the OS 6-inch maps. There are excellent views from SSW–NW; elsewhere views are obscured by a modern forestry plantation and higher ground. It has been partly levelled in the past, and is evident now as a slightly raised circular area (diam. 36m) defined by ephemeral traces of a levelled bank with a wide external fosse. The circuit can still be traced relatively clearly at SSE–WSW and NNE–E. At NE the original width of the bank can be gauged (Wth. c. 3.5m; present max. H above interior 0.1m) and the fosse is wide and round bottomed (Wth. c. 5m; present max. D below external ground level 0.25m). A rath (DG104-007----) crowns the top of the hill c. 170m to SE.

Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy

Date of upload: 11 March 2020

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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