Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Derrycassan, County Longford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Derrycassan
- County
- Longford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.82408, -7.53112
- SMR number
- LF006-039----
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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 the lower SSW-facing slope of a drumlin ridge. A raised circular area (diam. c. 26m) enclosed by a low bank of earth and stone (Wth c. 4.5m; H 0.6m) with a shallow external fosse (Wth 2.5-3.5m; D 0.3-1.1m) which has been modified and incorporated into a field-drainage system. It is divided into unequal portions by a NE-SW field bank and drain. The smaller portion, to the ESE, has been levelled, though its outline may still be traced. The original entrance is not recognisable.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.