Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Enaghan, County Longford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Enaghan
- County
- Longford
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.89737, -7.58043
- SMR number
- LF003-004----
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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 a low rise in pasture with a steep fall in ground level to the W. Depicted as a circular enclosure with the designation 'Fort' on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. A report in 1976 (SMR file) recorded a raised circular area (diam. 47m) enclosed by a substantial bank of earth and stone with an external fosse. The original entrance may have been at NE. Though levelled, its outline is marked by a poorly defined, low scarp (H 0.3-0.5m) in places.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 11 January 2012
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Bawnunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.