Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Deerpark (longford By.), County Longford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Deerpark (longford By.)
- County
- Longford
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.77851, -7.83663
- SMR number
- LF008-007----
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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 level ground within a plantation of deciduous trees. A raised circular area (diam. c. 33m) enclosed by a low bank of earth and stone (Wth 5.5-6.5m; H 0.3-0.8m) with a shallow external fosse (Wth 2.5-3m; D 0.1-0.5m). The bank and fosse have been destroyed from NE-S-SSW due to the construction of a wall and an adjacent roadway. A report in 1976 (SMR file) suggested that a wide break in the bank at E may have marked the original entrance.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.