Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Dring, County Longford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dring
- County
- Longford
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.81869, -7.54298
- SMR number
- LF006-058----
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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 close to the S shore of Lough Gowna. A raised circular area (diam. 34.5m), enclosed by a substantial bank of earth and stone (Wth 3.8-5.3m; H 0.8-1.5m) and an external fosse (Wth 4.9-5.9m; D 0.5m), which is identifiable only from E-S-W. Elsewhere it has been levelled but its outline (Wth 3-4m) may still be traced. A report in 1975 (SMR file) recorded that the original entrance was probably at SE. (O'Donovan 2003, 25)
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 1/1964).
References
Moore, S. 2007 Archaeological monuments in County Longford. Longford. Longford County Council.
Nearby in the register
- Castle - motteunder 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.