Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Drumbad, County Longford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Drumbad
- County
- Longford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.85049, -7.74001
- SMR number
- LF005-004----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 WSW-facing slope in pasture. A raised circular area (diam. c. 35m) enclosed by a substantial bank of earth and stone (Wth 6.3m; H 1.2m) with a wide, deep, external fosse (Wth 4.4m; D 0.95m). A break (Wth 3.1m) in the bank at ESE with an accompanying causeway marks the original entrance. This rath, particularly the interior, is very densely overgrown with scrub rendering satisfactory inspection impossible.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 11 January 2012
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - portal tombunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rath1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.