Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Aghnacliff, County Longford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Aghnacliff
- County
- Longford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.84551, -7.60431
- SMR number
- LF006-072----
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 top of a high drumlin hill. Marked on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure with the designation 'Fort; a 19th-century church occupies most of its interior and its associated graveyard surrounds it. No visible surface trace survives.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 21 February 2012
Nearby in the register
- Megalithic tomb - portal tombunder 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.