Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Kilmore, County Longford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilmore
- County
- Longford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.84869, -7.50793
- SMR number
- LF006-014----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
To the NE, below the summit, of a prominent, steep-sided NW-SE ridge. Depicted as a circular enclosure with the designation 'Fort' on the 1837 and 1883 eds. of the OS 6-inch map. A report in 1976 (SMR file) recorded a raised subcircular area (c. 28m E-W; c. 25.5m N-S) enclosed by a low bank of earth and stone with slight traces of an external fosse. The original entrance was probably at S. The rath was levelled in the early 1980s during land-reclamation works (local information). Visible as a cropmark on an aerial photograph (SMR file).
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 19 December 2012
Nearby in the register
- Crannogunder 1 mi
- Crannogunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.