Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Cartrongolan,greagh, County Longford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cartrongolan,greagh
- County
- Longford
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.81387, -7.74197
- SMR number
- LF005-015----
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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 high, prominent hill affording panoramic views in all directions. A raised oval area (35.4m NE-SW; 31.9m NW-SE) enclosed by a substantial bank of earth and stone (Wth 6.2m; H 0.2-1m) with a wide, shallow, partially waterlogged external fosse (Wth 6.9m; D 0.4m). It is divided into roughly equal portions by a NE-SW field boundary, which is also the townland boundary. Adjacent to the NW side of this is a modern laneway. To the SE (in Cartrongolan) the fosse has been largely infilled but its outline is still identifiable. The original entrance is not recognisable.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Anomalous stone groupunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassified1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.