Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Crott, County Longford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Crott
- County
- Longford
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.88879, -7.61793
- SMR number
- LF003-007----
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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 SE-facing hillside in rough pasture. A raised circular area (diam. 34.3m) enclosed by a substantial bank of earth and stone (Wth 6.3m; H 0.2-1.4m) with a wide, deep, waterlogged external fosse (Wth 4.2m; D 2.4m). A report in 1990 (SMR file) recorded traces of an outer bank from NW-NNW-N and from NE-E-SE. These are no longer identifiable. Elsewhere, the outer bank has been modified and incorporated into a field boundary. A break (Wth 2.2m) in the bank at SE with an accompanying causeway may mark the original entrance.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.