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
- 53.82915, -7.52485
- SMR number
- LF006-038----
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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 SE-facing slope in rough pasture. A raised circular area (diam. 39.8m) enclosed by a bank of earth and stone (Wth c. 4m; H 0.2-0.5m) from WNW-NW and from NNE-E-ESE. At the base of the bank is a largely infilled fosse (Wth 3.1m; D 0.3m). From SE-S-W the circuit and morphology of the perimeter has been altered where it has been incorporated into a NW-SE field boundary. The original entrance is not recognisable. The rath is densely overgrown with scrub.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 16 January 2012
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.