Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Carrickduff, County Longford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrickduff
- County
- Longford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.80775, -7.52755
- SMR number
- LF006-065----
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 gentle NE-facing slope in pasture. A raised subcircular area (41m N–S; 35.5m E–W) enclosed by a substantial bank of earth and stone (Wth 4.3-4.9m; H 0.2-1.1m) with a very wide, deep intervening fosse (Wth 4.5-7.5m; D 1.7-2.2m), an outer bank (Wth 4.2-9.5m; H 1.7-2.1m) and an outer fosse (Wth 3.5-4m; D 0.2-0.3m). The external face of the outer bank has been steepened and incorporated into a field boundary from W–NW–N. The outer fosse is not visible from ESE–S–W where a roadway, lane and farmyard overlie it. The original entrance may have been at NNE.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 26 November 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.