Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Larkfield, County Longford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Larkfield
- County
- Longford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.84148, -7.54603
- SMR number
- LF006-021----
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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
National Monument No. 640. Straddling the top and the upper E-facing slope of a drumlin. A raised oval area (c. 38m ENE-WSW; 35.5m NNW-SSE) enclosed by a substantial, although partially eroded, bank of earth and stone (Wth 5.8-9m; H 0.9-1.9m) with a wide, deep, waterlogged external fosse (Wth 5.9-7m; D 0.2-1.65m). A report in 1985 (SMR file) recorded that the original entrance may have been at E.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.