Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Creelaghta, County Longford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Creelaghta
- County
- Longford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.85978, -7.71952
- SMR number
- LF005-003----
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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
At the NW edge of a low rise in pasture. A raised circular area (diam. 37.5m) enclosed from NW-N-NE and from ESE-S-SSW by a substantial bank of earth and stone (Wth 5.5m; H 0.8-0.9m) with an external fosse (Wth 4m; D 0.4m). Elsewhere the bank and fosse have been levelled and the defining element is a scarp (H 1.3-1.65m). A report in 1976 (SMR file) noted slight traces of an outer bank at NW and that a gap in the bank at E with a causeway may have marked the original entrance. The interior is planted with beech and oak trees.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Burialunder 1 mi
- Burialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.