Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Aghacordrinan, County Longford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Aghacordrinan
- County
- Longford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.83019, -7.61417
- SMR number
- LF006-029----
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 SSE-facing slope in pasture. An oval-shaped mound of earth and stone (34.2m E–W; 28.1m N–S) is delimited by a relatively steep scarp (H 0.4-1.5m) from NW–N–ESE, elsewhere it is less well defined, a wide, shallow fosse (Wth 4.7m; D 0.6m), a very wide, high, bank (Wth 8.5m; H 2.3m), a second narrow, shallow fosse (Wth 1.8m; D 0.3m) and a wide, low outer bank (Wth 4.2m; H 0.6m). The outer bank has been modified and incorporated into a field boundary from SE–S–WNW. The original entrance is not recognisable. The perimeter is very overgrown with scrub rendering satisfactory inspection impossible.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 14 November 2012
Nearby in the register
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.